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Council directs staff to draft code amendments raising allowed building heights in core areas
Summary
Planning staff proposed modest increases to maximum building heights and a height-buffer approach; council directed staff to draft a text amendment and hold a UAPC hearing.
City planning staff presented a proposal to increase maximum building heights in multiple zoning districts as a way to expand housing choices and support economic development in the city’s central areas.
Brad, a planning staff member who opened the presentation, said many of the city’s residential and commercial zoning districts currently carry a 35-foot maximum height that dates to mid-20th-century code limits. Associate planner Lori said the Central Business District already allows buildings up to 100 feet, and staff recommended modest increases elsewhere combined with a ‘height buffer’ — i.e., upper floors set back from property lines where higher…
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