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Brighton council debates carve-outs to 5,000-square-foot home-size limit, asks staff for boundaries and a possible 7,000-foot cap
Summary
Council discussed proposed exceptions allowing larger homes in narrowly defined subdivisions such as Solitude Village, Giles Flat and Silver Lake Estates; staff was directed to return with mapped boundaries and recommended upper limits (council floated 7,000 sq ft).
Brighton Town Council held an extended discussion Aug. 13 over proposed exceptions to a 5,000-square-foot gross floor-area limit in the land-use code.
Morgan Nguyen, town planning staff with the Municipal Service District, presented draft ordinance language that would allow "alternative regulations" for explicitly defined areas — subdivisions or legal-map boundaries — so that those areas could be governed by different size rules. Nguyen said the council had earlier directed staff to draft possible exceptions…
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