Panel rejects bid to change limits on building heights
A controversial bid to change long-standing height limit restrictions in Walnut Creek has failed, but the issue is not dead.
The city’s Planning Commission on Thursday unanimously rejected a challenge to height limits established when voters passed Measure A in 1985. The commission, however, agreed that the frozen height limits have handicapped redevelopment of some parcels such as the site of a vacant former co-op store at 1510 Geary Road, leaving them underutilized.