lisa fromer, liberty hill. after two years, it's gratifying to see that the u.d.g. is not the overarching city-wide guideline. and all waivers have been deleted. but it's vague generalities and modern bent still won't guide development that in any way complements our older residential or historic neighbourhoods. many eastern and downtown districts and other neighbourhoods already have their own very granular-specific guidelines. an appendix in the first version of the u.d.g.s listed 33 of them. the latest draft now applis to the neighbourhood commercial corridors. that's the residential commercial interface that has always been part of the residential fabric. the r.d.g. has the detail and granularity to inform design here and includes historic preservation but not u.d.g. there is nothing in the u.d.g. that speaks to light air privacy. and now there is a little more on light wells. the reason it's up to neighbourhoods to write their own special area guidelines for their n.c.d.s is neither necessary or advisable. worst of all tu.d.g. is being applied to historic distr