Loving all of the new office space proposed and U/C on the eastside. It's interesting that all of them need a little more height in order to make the five levels work when including workable retail space on the ground-floor. We all know there is nothing magical about 60' and I'm hopeful that we notice this sooner rather than later as our corridors are dying with boredom of repetitive 60-footers. This height works fine for MF-6 (which the LDC actually allows to go to 90') but for all of the categories where we want ground-floor retail we limit them to 60' (think VMU, TOD, CS and others).
Mayor Pro Tem Sheryl Cole had a resolution ready a few years back directing the City Manager to look into what heights these zoning categories should be allowed to go to. Alas, it was squished by everyone saying "it will be handled in CodeNEXT". We'll know soon whether or not it will be corrected--let's hope it will be (draft code comes out on the 30th--READ IT!).
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