A May 9 article states the city of Bellevue is considering “regulations that would control the size and scale of new homes and remodels” aimed at limiting the impacts of building “megahomes.” True, but what is proposed still allows enormous megahomes.

I live in a modest R-5 zoned area in Lochmoor (Lake Hills 17) where the minimum lot size is 7,000 square feet, which can be a 73.5′ by 98′ lot. The average house size in our subdivision is 3,090 SF. The new proposal allows us to build 35-feet-high, three-story homes of over 10,000 SF! Further, by building these now “smaller” homes, over 90 percent of the home in our area will loose wonderful views of the mountains and Lake Sammamish.

Another example is that in R-2.5 zones with only 13,500 SF lots (lots about 116′ by 116′) 35-foot-high, three-story homes of at least 12,500 SF can be built under the proposals.

Bellevue’s census data shows that in 1960 there were 3.6 people per household when our Lake Hills 17 was built with an average of 4.04 bedrooms to accommodate the households. In the near future Bellevue will only have 2.1 people per household. Why plan for three to four times larger homes to accommodate fewer people? Bellevue has hardly started to address the megahome issue.

Philip Keightley, Bellevue