A businessman pulled his request to deannex from Clermont after noting that a town councilwoman who sided with him at a previous meeting was absent for the final vote Tuesday night. Property owner Chris Nonnemaker said that Kristi Crumpton was one of three council members who voted in March to allow him to withdraw from the city his 6-acre tract featuring a Papa’s Pizza To-Go restaurant off U.S. 129/Cleveland Highway, an act that would leave the property in unincorporated Hall County. Crumpton was out of town on a family matter, Mayor James Nix said at the beginning of the meeting.