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Commissioners raise privacy, scale and maintenance concerns in side-yard/ADU code review
Summary
A commissioner presented proposed changes to side-yard setback rules and suggested stepped-back upper stories and minimum side setbacks to reduce overcrowding, maintenance conflicts and visual scale; commissioners requested staff materials and agreed to discuss further in December.
Commissioner Maddie introduced a proposed revision to the city's residential side-yard standards and offered a starter text for commission discussion. Her memo, provided to commissioners in advance and circulated again at the meeting, suggested increasing the minimum side-yard balance to 7.5 feet on each side (instead of a 15-foot combined total with a 5-foot minimum on one side), limiting the run of a structure along a property line to 25 feet…
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