Wrightsville Beach’s laws regulating interior building space leave room for interpretation, and some architects are doing just that, arguing cabinets, appliances and other “voids” shouldn’t count toward the building’s volume, town staff said.
Wrightsville Beach town code also controls building size through precise setback requirements and height limits, and the town’s planning board met June 7 to make the interior building space laws just as clear.
The intent of the building space ordinance was to control volume, said Tony Wilson, director of planning and parks.
Board members decided the building ordinance to specify that all interior walls, spaces, cavities, voids, shafts, structural members and fixtures should be counted as measured space. Staircases will not be counted, except for staircase landings.
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