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Landmark Commission to ask staff to draft change to window guidance for new construction
Summary
Commissioners discussed allowing two-over-two or simulated divided-light windows in new construction and asked staff to prepare policy language or standards changes to return as an action item at a future meeting.
The Galveston Landmark Commission on May 19 discussed whether to modify its interpretation of window guidance for new construction and instructed staff to draft language for a future action item.
Commissioner Bourgeois introduced the item, saying homeowners frequently request "to put 2 over 2 windows in," and questioned the long-standing practice that new construction should use one-over-one windows so it is readily identifiable as new. Bourgeois said modern manufactured windows are commonly two-over-two and that…
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