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Council directs staff to refine College Town form-district rules on height, row houses and site features
Summary
Planning staff presented a series of targeted amendments for the College Town Area Form Districts; council generally asked staff to return with clarified height rules, consider eliminating the row‑house incentives in MU/CR zones, regulate sunken patios, and rezone five parcels into CR‑4 where appropriate.
Planning Department staff presented proposed targeted amendments to the College Town Area Form Districts and related design guidance at the Committee of the Whole meeting on February 12, focusing on building height, a row‑house incentive, sunken/front-yard patios, green‑space requirements, and rezoning five parcels into CR‑4.
The presentation traced the district’s history — a College Town plan and hybrid form-based code adopted a decade earlier — and explained that the mixed-use (MU) districts contain dual limits: a maximum number of stories and a maximum number of feet. Staff said recent projects have reached building heights and story counts that make variance requests common and raise questions about whether the code should measure…
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