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Based on the Council discussion at the 4 August 2009 meeting, we have again reverted the calculator to reflect the staff recommendations in the earlier, more restrictive proposal given to the Council and the Planning Board.

We’ve finally updated our online FAR calculator to match the latest version of the draft ordinance language proposed for in Attachment A (pp. 20-41) of the City Council Agenda for 4 August 2009. As with the previous version, Please note that we cannot model the newly proposed bulk plane and wall articulation standards with the calculator.

For the mathematically inclined, what follows is the key part of the source code for the planning board recommendation:

function calculate() {
	global $lotsf, $maxsf, $maxBC;
		//RL-1 rules

		//FAR rules
		if ($lotsf<5000) { $maxsf = $lotsf*0.62; }
		elseif ($lotsf<10001) { $maxsf = $lotsf*0.2+2100; }
		elseif ($lotsf<22501) { $maxsf = $lotsf*0.122+2880; }
		else { $maxsf = $lotsf*0.25; }

		//BC rules
		if ($lotsf<5000) { $maxBC = $lotsf*0.41; }
		elseif ($lotsf<10001) { $maxBC = $lotsf*0.2+1050; }
		elseif ($lotsf<22501) { $maxBC = $lotsf*0.116+1890; }
		else { $maxBC = $lotsf*0.20; }

}

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