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Home builders seek wider curb cuts, loop drive allowances; council authorizes zoning text amendment application
Summary
The Ames Home Builders Association asked the council to relax driveway throat-width limits and let certain looped driveways; the council authorized the association to file a zoning text amendment for staff review.
The Ames Home Builders Association (AHBA) urged the City Council to revise driveway-approach standards that builders say produce narrow, awkward approaches on modern houses.
Jake Hanson, president of the AHBA and a local home builder, presented three primary requests: allow up to a 29-foot driveway throat at the sidewalk (and a 35-foot curb cut at the curb), permit looped driveways where approaches are separated by a minimum distance, and limit inspections to the public approach to reduce unnecessary inspection trips for private onsite concrete.
Hanson said…
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