Gov. Matt Blunt signed the repeal of the village law today, according to spokeswoman Jessica Robinson. The bill will become law Aug. 28, and will reverse a law passed last year that would allow individual landowners to create villages and bypass county zoning restrictions in certain cases.

The governor’s office planned no news release on the bill signing. The bill was SB765 and was sponsored by Sen. Jack Goodman of Mt. Vernon. It was a major element of the session’s final days, as Speaker of the House Rod Jetton tried to stop the bill from becoming law.

Jetton was widely believed to be responsible for the law being inserted into an omnibus bill a year ago at the behest of developer Robert Plaster, who has also been a campaign donor to Blunt.