Matal roofs in the city are approved only south of South Dixie Highway and only for 90 days, after which applications for such roofs would be suspended.
The commission approved the compromise measure as a way to gage the impact of the new law without moving forward with a citywide law. The concerns are that approving for the whole city could significantly alter the character of many city neighborhoods, especially in the north part of the city. Liniting the program would give the city time to study how the metal roofs would be received on a bigger scale, possibly across the whole city at a later date.
The commission is split at this time on whether to allow full or partial city coverage. Both scenarios require approval by a full session of the Board of Architects and the new city architect to make sure that the metal roofs would only be allowed in appropriate cases and would not be forced on Mediterranean revival architecture style homes or other historically important residences.
It seems that if by just allowing metal roofs on certain ranch style or non-descript architectural style homes in the city it would solve this issue. And by doing so in a contoled manner, it would do little to negatively affect the character of those neighborhoods. allowing the controlled use of metal roofs would raise the aesthetic and economic value of many homes.
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Are metal roofs catching on in your market? Are they very common?
I have seen only a handful of them in Minnesota. I thought they looked great and it makes sense in a climate like ours where ice-damming on roofs is a common problem.