January 22, 2018 -- The Santa Monica City Council will consider on Tuesday imposing temporary limits on the size and heights of proposed “monster mansions” as it searches for a way to permanently protect what is left of the city's quaint single-family neighborhoods.

Under consideration is a temporary ordinance which would cut the footprint of new outsize homes by 20 percent and require the height limit to be cut from the current 28 feet to 25 feet in neighborhoods zoned as R1, or for single-family homes, a report to the council said.

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