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Council refers proposed citywide design-standards ordinance to ordinance committee after extended debate
Summary
Council members debated a proposal to create a seven-member design standards committee and referred the ordinance to the ordinance committee for further vetting, citing concerns about redundancy, delays, parking and neighborhood character.
The Providence City Council on May 15 referred an ordinance to create a citywide design standards committee to the ordinance committee after extended debate over scope, duplication of existing review bodies and possible impacts on housing production.
Councilwoman Ryan, the ordinance sponsor, said design standards are necessary to protect neighborhood character and improve predictability in new construction. Ryan described an example from her ward where a house permitted as a single-family two-story “came out as a 3-story building, and it towers over the other houses.” She said the proposed seven-member advisory…
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