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The Richland Hills City Council held a work session and regular meeting on September 14, 2026. The work session covered accessory structure amendments, international code updates, the municipal judge appointment process, utility rate and fee schedule amendments, and the fiscal year 2026 budget timeline. The regular session included citizen comments, an update on the Flash Vote survey, and the FY27 mill and overlay schedule. An executive session for economic development project #26-02 resulted in no action.
um secondary type uh perturances. So it would just be the roof peak of that roof line. It makes it very easy for us to you know administer that when we're looking at a plan set, we can see what it's supposed to be. Our building inspector can measure what um what needs to be measured. Um it does it what it doesn't do is address the scale. Um and so some of the the the questions that some of you have had with us is there there appears for the accessory structures that are just so large for whether it's the lot size that they're on or just for that property based on the primary structure size. Uh so this is just height. So we're just talking about height. But somebody could still have a huge square footage of a building um that's almost it's not larger than their primary structure but um could be significant size. So that's one thing to keep in mind. Um as we go higher in as you go to the 28 maps, we may want to consider s additional setbacks. So right now if you have a five foot setback on a lot twenty eight feet might be kind of towering over a neighbor. And so maybe as you go up um we push the setback further in and so those are things to also consider. Right now it's it's set at a just what it is today. Um and so that could depend on your your zoning category that you're in. If you're on an estate lot you can have different restrictions than if you're on a single family twelve or a seventy five hundred square foot lot. Um that what that would do is in some of our more internal neighborhoods with smaller lots it would keep some of those towering structures down. Um so really there's kind of a third option uh where we look at it on a lot by lot kind of zoning basis. Obviously this is all common sense like when we're when we're looking at um does the shed or does the accessory structure is it a mother in law suite you know if it mi meets those type of requirements for accessory dwelling units um where do you need flexibility that you guys are comfortable with but also making it very predictable for it's a homeowner or the developer and then staff to administer. So um what we are proposing is coming back to you with kind of that third option um that would give you heights the definitions clarification obviously but then also kind of a context sensitive um arrangement with setbacks and and heights as it kind of tiers. But that's in like a comprehensive plan, right? Also, yeah building form is definitely a part big part of your uh comprehensive plan. Correct. Would it also be spelled out your to be spelled out for each lot size and building size or is there room for interpretation or personal preference or well I that's a good idea. Staff doesn't like me so they didn't approve mine but they approved my neighbors and then the lot right so the challenge would be if if you're in a single family twelve or you're in a smaller um zoning district and maybe you own two lots. So does that mean and it it's flat it or not into two into one lot just because your lots bigger now but you're still in the zoning category where your neighbors are on the smaller lots. Like those are things where I could see there's some gray area. But that will clarify so that it's no you're in that same zoning district so you have to stick with what your neighbors have. But that kind of stuff would be clarified and it's not gonna be left up to common sense. I mean I think the the point of the common sense is to provide the flexibility to sit and it's not eliminating things that you think wow I why aren't we allowing that um right now I I I feel like it does a pretty good job. It was really the height definition that got a lot of the the latest conversations on Dover. So it's based on that height. So I it addressed the main structure, I guess is what it was in the and the others so we talk about all the extensions on top of we do away with those and we just live with it. The main structure is the height of the of the accessory structure.