A public hearing turned into a heated debate Tuesday in an evening meeting of the Statesboro City Council.For more than an hour, supporters and opponents of a proposed housing development on the city’s north side exchanged arguments in a fight to determine the project’s fate. Developers made their cases but were faced with more than two dozen members of a community who filled council chambers to rail against the proposed plan.Residents living in an area that includes the Myrtle Crossing subdivision, Mattie Lively Elementary, Jef Road and Carter and Debbie drives showed in full force to voice their opposition to the construction of what builders call a “pocket neighborhood” — a residential development that would feature 17 single-family homes and a community garden on a small, 2.84 tract of land — on Zetterower Road. DNA Properties, who appeared before council to request zoning changes that would make the project possible, argued that the new mini-neighborhood would supplement the well-being and value of the surrounding community.