RESOLUTION NO.________, SERIES 2016
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A RESOLUTION REQUESTING THAT THE PLANNING COMMISSION HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING AND FORWARD A RECOMMENDATION TO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF THE LOUISVILLE/JEFFERSON COUNTY METRO GOVERNMENT REGARDING PROPOSED LANGUAGE AMENDING THE INFILL DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS IN CHAPTER 5 OF THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE TO ADDRESS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BUILDING HEIGHTS OF PROPOSED STRUCTURES ON INFILL SITES AND EXISTING STRUCTURES ADJACENT TO THE SUBJECT INFILL SITES AND WHETHER A STEPBACK REQUIREMENT FOR SAID INFILL STRUCTURES WITH PROPOSED BUILDING HEIGHTS GREATER THAN THE BUILDING HEIGHTS OF THE STRUCTURES ON ADJACENT PROPERTIES WOULD HELP MITIGATE ANY INCOMPATIBILITY POSSIBLY CAUSED BETWEEN THE DISPARITY IN BUILDING HEIGHTS OF NEIGHBORING PROPERTIES.
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Sponsored by: Councilman James Peden
WHEREAS, over the course of the last two years, Legislative Council of the Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government ("Metro Council") has undertaken a comprehensive review and update to its zoning regulations, the Land Development Code ("LDC"), and as part of said review and update, the Metro Council, at times, finds the need to further review existing LDC regulations; and
WHEREAS, here, the Metro Council, based on the review and debate of proposed amendments to the infill development regulations during 2015, identified concerns related to situations where structures constructed on infill parcels are disproportionally taller than the structures on adjacent parcels and how that height disparity might negatively affect those adjacent parcels; and
WHEREAS, the Metro Council now wishes to consider the appropriateness of adopting infill regulations addressing building heights of proposed infill structures and whether a "stepback" requirement at specified building heights for said structures proposed for the subject infill sites would help alleviate any incompatibility possibility caused by disproportionate building hei...
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