{"id":1648,"date":"2010-07-23T18:03:11","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T01:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kent-sets-public-hearing-about-height-restrictions\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T21:55:41","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T04:55:41","slug":"kent-sets-public-hearing-about-height-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-sets-public-hearing-about-height-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent sets public hearing about height restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents can testify about a proposed height restriction and other amendments to the city of Kent&#8217;s Downtown Commercial Enterprise Zoning District at 7 p.m. July 26 at the Council Chambers at City Hall, 220 Fourth Ave. S.<\/p>\n<p>The public hearing is before the city&#8217;s Land Use and Planning Board.<\/p>\n<p>City staff has proposed a height restriction for projects built adjacent to single-family residential zoned properties. Kent resident Michael Johnson asked city officials to make the change for developments built within 300 feet of single-family homes after a developer revealed plans for an apartment complex along Smith Street in the Mill Creek neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>The board will consider several height restriction options. City staff has recommended a limit of four stories (50 feet).<\/p>\n<p>The City Council will have final say on any proposed height restrictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents can testify about a proposed height restriction and other amendments to the city of Kent&#8217;s Downtown Commercial Enterprise Zoning District at 7 p.m. July 26 at the Council Chambers at City Hall, 220 Fourth Ave. S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-1648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1648"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}