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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 setbacks from that pad. He said a recent approval on Perry Ridge instead measured 27 feet at multiple contour lines where the structure steps up the slope, producing a building much taller than neighbors and inconsistent with mountain ranch style homes.
He also said the property sits on type C soils and that the excavation "has not done excavation, to OSHA standards," creating risks for workers and neighboring lots and increasing the chance of sloughing onto an adjacent property. Garrett said the soils report on file dated to 2017 and addressed a more modest structure, and he asked trustees to restore the historical method of measuring building height and to require retaining walls and excavation to meet OSHA and town standards.
Trustees acknowledged the concern and said Garrett had raised the issue previously with staff and the mayor; Garrett said he has involved the mayor and another trustee to evaluate the project directly. No formal action was taken at the meeting; Garrett said he would attempt to participate remotely at the next code-review session.
