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Resident urges Carbondale trustees to restore historic building-height measurement and enforce excavation standards on Perry Ridge project
Summary
A resident told trustees a new house on Perry Ridge measures building height at multiple contour lines and that excavation has not complied with OSHA standards; he asked the town to revert to historical height measurement and to enforce retaining-wall and excavation rules.
Pat Garrett, a resident, urged trustees to revisit how building height is measured and to enforce excavation and retaining-wall standards for a house under construction at 769 Perry Ridge.
Garrett said the town's Universal Development Code historically determined building height by measuring from the unimproved slope at a single point and applying…
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