It looks like the developer of Grafton Plaza is in the mood to please Dubliners when he says that he “wants the project to be lower to the ground.”

An original plan to building residential towers up to 21 stories high in East Dublin had residents all over the Tri-Valley grumbling at such an idea during the past few months. If you look around you, there aren’t too many skyscrapers towering above small businesses and residential properties.

Charter Properties has been rethinking things in order to keep in line with the city’s character and height limit.

According to the East Dublin Specific Plan, 10-story buildings at the BART station are allowed as well as a 6 story limit around transit centers. It gets quite a bit murky immediately after that. The area in the vicinity of Grafton Plaza is labeled “Campus Office,” where commercial and business buildings permitted to be built.

Developers were envisioning for Grafton Plaza to turn into a luxury hotel with a sports club and spa with enough room for office space.

In the end, people would most likely object to anything tall enough to resemble an eyesore when everything else keeps low to the ground.

- Joseph Natividad