The Cardiff Protection Association needs you to attend the October 16, 2007 meeting of the Cardiff Specific Plan Review Committee and to speak out on two issues. The first is the height of new one-story buildings and the second is an effort to maintain the current open feeling of the down town area.

With your help, the committee finally saw the light and agreed that it would be beneficial to have some buildings remain one story in height. In order to encourage one story development, the committee voted to allow owners to cover up to 80% of the lot with structures. While CPA felt this floor area ratio was excessive, we were willing to go along with it to get one-story buildings. Now, some committee member have discussed allowing one story buildings to be up to 22 feet in height – this is only 4 feet lower than the 26 feet allowed for 2 story buildings, and defeats the objective of maintaining the existing small size and scale of the Cardiff Commercial District.

The CPA hopes you will come to the meeting and support a maximum height for the one-story buildings to be 16 feet. Join us in saying it’s not fair to allow a developer to both fill 80% of the lot and also build ocean views buildings.