They don't account for two-story rooms with their cathedral ceilings, which add bulk to a structure and have a negative visual impact from the road. It's not calculated in your floor-area ratio because there's no floor there. |
What I've seen is that it's not necessarily that the homes are too big, but they're much larger than the homes adjacent to them. The older homes are a lot smaller. When [the new homes] are adjacent to a small ranch or a small Cape Cod, you're really impacting your neighbors. |