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Planning commission recommends zoning text amendment establishing building design standards
Summary
Farmington Hills Planning Commission voted to recommend a zoning text amendment (new Sec. 34-5.2) creating design standards for new construction and significant additions, with exemptions and a waiver process and several editorial revisions requested before the item goes to City Council.
The Farmington Hills Planning Commission voted to recommend that City Council approve a zoning text amendment that would add new design standards governing building materials, facades, roof treatments and fenestration for new construction and major expansions.
The planner presenting the draft told commissioners the ordinance’s “intent of having design standards is really to set a baseline for quality, for the appearance of buildings and to make sure that they're durable, and and easy materials to maintain, and, consistent with the aesthetic appearance that, the city wants to see,” and described how the rules would apply only to new construction and to expansions that increase floor area by 50% or more and only to facades oriented toward a public right of way.
Commissioners said the…
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