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Commissioners debate aesthetics after consultants remove subjective color rules from draft code
Summary
Planning commissioners and consultants clashed over whether removing subjective cladding-color rules will permit buildings that meet objective standards but are considered 'ugly'; consultants said attorney advice removed color limits to avoid legal vulnerability and that PUDs and exceptions can preserve design oversight.
Planning commissioners questioned consultants on Feb. 11 after the draft zoning code removed cladding-color and similar subjective requirements, raising concerns that objective-only standards could allow buildings that are technically compliant but visually jarring.
One commissioner framed the tension bluntly: "Ugly's in the eye of the beholder," and asked how the code would prevent projects that meet material and dimensional rules from producing undesirable visual…
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