Residents raise voices against rising building heights downtown

Council now favors 52-foot option

  • Maximum allowed building heights on downtown blocks outside of the nine-block Square will increase from 40 feet. The current proposal of 52 feet would meet the bottom of the courthouse balustrade, as marked here. To the far right is Tamiro Plaza, which stands at 44 feet as a reference. (Photos by Nicolas Cicale)
    Maximum allowed building heights on downtown blocks outside of the nine-block Square will increase from 40 feet. The current proposal of 52 feet would meet the bottom of the courthouse balustrade, as marked here. To the far right is Tamiro Plaza, which stands at 44 feet as a reference. (Photos by Nicolas Cicale)

    Georgetown City Council will be raising the maximum allowable building heights for parts of downtown Georgetown. However, debates on how much those heights will be raised to — from the existing 40-foot limits to either 52 or 57.5 feet — continued during a workshop March 26.

    After nearly an hour and a half of presentation and discussion, city council came to a 4-3 majority decision to allow building…