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L <br />Building Height <br />Febniary 14.2001 <br />Pages <br />V. Deflaiaf BaiMing Height Maaagcinenl Cionb <br />In listening to recent Planning Commission and Council discussions regarding building <br />height, staff has concluded that there are a number of goals that have yet to be clearly <br />verbalized in relation to the building height issue. Plaiming Commission and Council should <br />consider how the following statements illustrate the City's goals and values regarding <br />building height: <br />Not <br />AMm Sib Wwirw <br />The City should restrict residential bull *mg heights within neighborhoods so <br />that no new homes or home additions constructed in a neighborhix)d w ill be <br />out of character w ith the neighborhood. <br />A new home or home addition should not exceed the height of the existing <br />homes on either side of it. <br />New homes and home additions should not be restricted by the height of <br />neighboring homes as long as all current code requirements are met. <br />New homes and home additions should be subject to more restrictive height <br />limitations when they are near adjoining lot lines or adjacent residence <br />structures. <br />Existing homes should be granted greater rights in terms of open space, air. <br />light and solar access than new homes. <br />New homes or home additions should be located and designed so as not to <br />block direct sunlight from any portion of any adjoining lot. even if that means <br />the new home or portions of it must be setback further than the standard <br />requirement. <br />Building height restrictions should be used os a tool to limit massing on <br />lakeshore properties (such as greater setbacks as building gets higher). <br />Building height should be mea.surcd diilerently than the cunenlly defined <br />code method. <br />The 30’ height limit should be revised downward while retaining the current <br />methods of measuring height. <br />^ •