After waiting for eight months, Apple has finally been given permission from city planners in Cupertino to start work on a second campus there.

Thanks to a unanimous vote by the Cupertino planning commission, a 7.78 acre property on Pruneridge Avenue has been rezoned to allow office use, according to Daily News Los Angeles. Apple originally requested the rezoning back in April, but the commission could not reach a decision at the time on the prime piece of residential land.

The new zoning allows for both office and residential use. Located just south of the Hewlett-Packard campus, the property is home to two office buildings already occupied by Apple employees, buildings which already existed from the site’s previous industrial days.

Before Apple purchased the property in 2006, the city had rezoned the site residential in anticipation of a 130-unit townhouse and condominium that previous owners Morely Brothers had proposed. That deal never panned out, and the site remained zoned for residential use only. Apple purchased nine separate properties at the Pruneridge site for a nearly 50-acre campus, Apple CEO Steve Jobs told the Cupertino council when he made a surprise visit in April, 2006 after purchasing the properties.

“Right now, what we are trying to do is figure out what we have… from a planning perspective,” said Apple representative Michael Foulkes at the town meeting Monday. Foulkes said that Apple does not have plans for a campus at that site, but the rezoning is the first step toward making any new plans. About one acre of the land will remain zoned for use as a public park.

While Apple’s main headquarters is a 1 Infinite Loop in Cupertino, they have employees spread out across the city, a situation that Steve Jobs has described as “frustrating.” His intention is to consolidate all Cupertino employees at the current Infinite Loop campus as well as another one to be build in the future.