Greyhound buses in Richmond may soon have a home at Main Street Station.

The Land Use Housing and Transportation Standing Committee unanimously approved an ordinance allowing the company to use part of Main Street Station and its plaza as a bus station, including a passenger boarding and waiting area, during a meeting Tuesday afternoon.

Greyhound is already operating out of Main Street Station, but the upcoming vote could officially license the company to use the location under a two-year agreement. This decision is part of the City’s ongoing plans for Greyhound operations, with City Council expected to vote on the ordinance in November.

“It really will help to promote Main Street as a regional multimodal transportation hub,” Department of Public Works Deputy Director Dironna Moore Clarke said as she addressed the committee in support of the ordinance.

The vote came as the former Greyhound station across from the Diamond on North Arthur Ashe Boulevard closed Sunday. The location was purchased years earlier, along with other Greyhound properties across the country, by Twenty Lake Holdings, with plans to be redeveloped into multi-family residential housing.

While the ordinance was approved by all committee members, there were questions about the decision. The impact of the buses on the roads and traffic in the area were among the issues raised by committee members based on their own concerns and those that could be raised by residents.

“My problem is not the location, my problem is the logistics of it being supported for the duration of daily buses,” said Andreas Addison, 1st District, the committee’s chairman.