BOULDER — Boulder’s elected leaders met Thursday night to consider imposing much stricter limits on the height of new commercial developments within the city than those given initial approval last month.
The session drew an overflow crowd, and citizens were still lined up to speak on the issue four hours after the meeting began.
If the City Council adopts the version of the height ordinance recommended by the city’s Planning Board, no new project outside of a planned expansion of Frasier Meadows could be given permission to be built more than 38 feet tall downtown or 35 feet tall in the rest of the city for the next two years.
This version of the ordinance — without the numerous exceptions recommended by the city planning staff and given initial OK by the council — has opponents of current development trends cheering and advocates for denser development crying foul.
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