BELLEVILLE, IL (KMOX) - Some Metro East communities are rebuffing fears that smaller homes aren't as big of a benefit. Ron Deedrick, Local Government Affairs Director with Illinois Realtors gives the example of Belleville recently reversing building and rehab restrictions for homes under a thousand square feet. "You ultimately give those property owners, those developers, those housing providers, more options for what they can do on their property because they're not creating more land.