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Council narrows and debates South Side form-district changes; parking elimination advances, height and roof proposals fail
Summary
City staff presented five recommended changes for the South Side form district Sept. 10; council accepted staff recommendations on parcel zoning and removed mandatory off-street parking but rejected increases in permitted building height and removal of pitched‑roof requirements.
At a Sept. 10 meeting, the Ithaca Common Council reviewed staff recommendations for the South Side form district and took separate votes on five linked items that staff had proposed as part of a form-based rezoning package.
Staff presentation and survey: Megan, the deputy director for zoning, said staff circulated a three-week survey and received 66 responses (57 from South Side residents) and recommended several revisions to a draft form district. Items on the table included removing certain CBD-100 parcels from the form district, eliminating off-street parking requirements in the district, changing maximum building heights in the urban mixed-use zone from five to seven stories, removing a pitched-roof requirement, and reducing or removing minimum lot size and width requirements.
Council actions and votes: - CBD-100 parcels: Council accepted staff’s recommendation to keep existing CBD-100 parcels as currently zoned (staff recommended not rezoning these parcels). The…
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