The Martha’s Vineyard Commission is reopening its public hearing on Edgartown Gardens, a proposed condominium complex between Upper Main street and Chase Road intended for buyers over age 55.

Commission hearing officer Douglas Sederholm said the hearing, which opened in March and closed Sept. 11, will re-open Oct. 16 to consider changes to the project submitted earlier this week by applicant William Cumming and his attorney Jason Talerman.

“They’re proposing to install 11 elevators and to reduce the number of units to 55, which will increase the number of bedrooms by nine. And there are a number of other changes that are fairly significant,” Mr. Sederholm said at Thursday night’s commission meeting.

Mr. Cumming and Mr. Talerman also filed a complaint in July with the state housing appeals committee against the Edgartown zoning board of appeals, saying the board failed to hold a hearing on the project within a statutory time limit and should now award a comprehensive permit by default.

As previously proposed, Edgartown Gardens would have had 60 one- and two-bedroom apartments in 10 three-story buildings without elevators. Twelve of the 60 units were to be deed-restricted for owners earning no more than 40 to 50 per cent of the area median income, while the remaining units were to sell at market rate.

The revised plan drops the number of affordable units to 11 and now includes elevators.

The lack of elevators drew fire during public comments in March and this month, with multiple speakers saying the lack of accessibility to upper floors was unreasonable in a complex meant for seniors.

Traffic impacts from the proposed development were an even greater cause of contention, with speakers charging that it would cause chaos at the Main street intersection and mayhem on Chase Road.

Mr. Sederholm said Thursday that the documents submitted this week include a 99-page response from the applicants’ traffic planning consultant, Jeffrey Dirk of Vanasse and Associates.

Martha’s Vineyard Commission procedures allow the hearing officer to reopen a public hearing if substantive new written information is submitted while the written record remains open, Mr. Sederholm said.

“I have decided that this is indeed substantive new information submitted by the applicant, and I have determined that the public requires an adequate opportunity to address these changes,” Mr. Sederholm said.

Following the Oct. 16 hearing, he said, the commission’s land use policy committee should be able to hold its post-public hearing on Oct. 22 to discuss conditions for a potential approval, followed by deliberations on Oct. 30.