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Commission recommends raising residential plate height limit from 20 to 24 feet
Summary
After hearing builders and staff describe construction practices that make the existing 20‑foot second‑story plate height hard to meet, the commission recommended an ordinance amendment to increase the measured plate height to 24 feet and asked staff to coordinate with the fire department on implementation details.
The Cedar City Planning Commission voted to recommend an amendment to the city’s building‑height rules that would raise the maximum plate height for affected residential zones from 20 feet to 24 feet.
Robert DeMille, owner of Custom Trust and representing a group that frequently designs houses in Cedar City, told the commission the 20‑foot maximum plate height “came from older codes” and is increasingly difficult to meet with current design preferences such as 9‑foot main floors, 9‑foot second floors and thicker floor or roof trusses. DeMille said the restriction forces designers into…
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