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No, the point is that the zoning maintains the consistency.

But that if someday in the future there's a greater public need for something that outweights the architectural consistency, there's the flexibility to consider that too, through the existing public mechanisms of zoning changes.

Like if the entire block gets purchased and torn down to put in a single school building, then the setback is no longer needed, because a new kind of consistency can take its place.




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