West Lafayette city councilors may be at odds with some of the city’s landlords on the issue of building several new high-rise apartment buildings in the city’s new downtown. The latest development, a 16-story building slated for the top of West Lafayette’s Chauncey Hill, won’t be the tallest building in the community—that title still belongs to the county courthouse dome. However, it is tall enough to test Federal Aviation Administration rules for building height, because its roof will rise to a higher elevation than any other building. The so-called “Rise at Chauncey," which will sit on the lot currently occupied by the University Lutheran Church, is one of three large-scale residential buildings in the works for West Lafayette. A ten-story high-rise is planned on Pierce Street behind Harry’s Chocolate Shop, and city officials alluded to yet another large-scale development in a city council meeting last week. Council Member Nick DeBoer represents the area just south of Purdue’s
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