The Martha’s Vineyard Commission agreed last week that a full review of the revised plan for Bradley Square is in order and set a public hearing for early next month.

At its regular meeting Thursday night the full commission disagreed with the recommendation of its land use planning committee, which on Monday voted to recommend that a new public hearing is not warranted for the revised Bradley Square plan.

The project, which calls for renovating the old Bradley church at the corner of Masonic and Dukes County avenues into a mixed-use development with affordable apartments, artist work and retail space and a community center, was approved by the commission as a development of regional impact (DRI) in June. The plan, which has been criticized by neighbors for being too large, was recently revised. The developers for the project are the Island Affordable Housing Fund and its sister organization the Island Housing Trust.

The revised plan primarily addresses the issue of parking, which has been expanded at the expense of most of the green space in the earlier version of the project.

On Monday night the land use committee took up the question of whether the revised plan required a new public hearing and review as a DRI, a process known as a concurrence vote under commission rules (the commission must vote to either concur or not concur that the project in question is a DRI).

After some discussion, the committee voted 5-0 to recommend that the revised plan did not require a new public hearing.

The commission is not bound to follow the recommendations of the land use committee, and when the full commission met last Thursday, chairman Douglas Sederholm quickly signaled a new direction. “Our legal counsel feels emphatically we should hold a public hearing for procedural reasons. That is not at all a reflection of the merits of the changes to this proposal,” he said.

Commissioner Ned Orleans questioned whether they were bound to follow counsel’s advice.

“I have a thing about an organization that hires an attorney to get good legal advice and then feels they absolutely have to take that advice without even talking about it,” Mr. Orleans said.

But commissioner Linda Sibley said the changed plan merits another review. “It is actually a pretty big change. Just because it is a good change doesn’t mean it is an insignificant one,” she said.

The commission voted unanimously to hold a new public hearing; a date has been set for Jan. 8 at 7:30 p.m.

In other business, the commission voted unanimously to elect Christina Brown as the new chairman.

Mrs. Brown, an elected member of the commission from Edgartown and former chairman of the land use planning committee, will take the gavel from outgoing chairman Mr. Sederholm after Jan. 1. Chris Murphy, an elected member of the commission from Chilmark, was named vice-chairman and Mr. Orleans, an elected member of the commission from Tisbury, was named treasurer.

Mrs. Brown said she would strive to continue a tradition of collaborative leadership.

“I’m going to hopefully continue a fine tradition of chairing meetings with some objectivity and lots of lots of inclusiveness,” she said.