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A majority of the Napa County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to reconfigure the county’s 12 so-called urban bubbles, adding about 1,800 acres to the county’s trove of clearly-labeled agricultural land.

The majority also voted to redraw county maps of city boundaries to better reflect what is county land and what is city land.

In one of several related votes Tuesday, supervisors Diane Dillon, Mark Luce and Brad Wagenknecht formed a majority to make the elimination of agricultural land in Angwin’s urban bubble a first step in a process to take a closer look at land use designations in Angwin.

Translation: The controversy surrounding Pacific Union College’s proposed eco-village development will be continued to Jan. 27, when critics of the project will again lobby the board to accept their zoning plan for Angwin, which would whittle the college’s 380-unit eco-village proposal down to 191 units.

Critics of PUC’s development proposal turned out to voice the same concerns they have over the last year: more homes in Angwin would equal more lives endangered by fire and narrow, rural roads choked with more traffic.

PUC and developed Triad Communities are working on environmental studies to examine impacts from the project, but have said the eco-village — with sustainable homes, additional retail in Angwin and improvements to the PUC campus — will prove a benefit to the community.

PUC representatives were notably silent during Tuesday’s meeting. In the past, PUC has said that any changes to the Angwin urban bubble represent a violation of the college’s private property rights and might damage the college’s ability to operate in the future.

Some supervisors were careful to point out Tuesday they felt they were being fair to the college after being threatened with legal action by Alan Reinach, a lawyer and president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church State Council.

Reinach sent the county a letter in February warning that changes to the Angwin urban bubble could be interpreted as a form of religious discrimination under federal law. PUC is an Adventist institution.

“I think we are being fair because we’re treating Angwin with the same process,” Luce said. “But I think it deserves more attention.”

Dillon agreed.

“Something needs to be done,” she said. “I don’t know what it is. We have excellent creative planners, maybe they could give us a suggestion.”

“It shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone in Angwin that there is a subsequent step,” Wagenknecht said.

Supervisors Harold Moskowite and Bill Dodd said they could not support the Angwin decision. Dodd said he had no problem taking a closer look at Angwin, but he didn’t support the day’s “process.”

Moskowite wanted to deal with the Angwin issue in its entirety Tuesday.

Decisions about urban bubbles — swaths of land in agricultural areas where the county would allow urban growth — in Deer Park and Moskowite Corners took place with supervisors Luce and  Moskowite excused for possible conflicts of interest, respectively.

Luce’s wife works at St. Helena Hospital and Moskowite owns significant tracts of land in Moskowite Corners.