Commission leans toward lower residential height limits while keeping main-street districts taller
After extended debate using local projects as examples, the Planning Commission signaled support in informal straw polls to lower low- and medium-density residential height limits to 35 feet while retaining 40-foot limits in central commercial and community zones; residential high-density drew mixed views.
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Commissioners spent significant time debating whether to keep the current 40-foot maximum or return to a 35-foot standard in residential zones. Several residents warned that taller, flat-roofed buildings read as visually overwhelming on the village’s hillsides; one resident said returning heights to 35 feet would help keep buildings “to the scale of what’s going on in the village now.”
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