The St. Paul City Council will revisit a sweeping proposal to permit duplexes, and denser development, in every residential zoning district in the town on Oct. 18 following a “friendly amendment” introduced Wednesday by Council Member Rebecca Noecker.

The amendment increases maximum height limits in newly-proposed H1 residential and RL large lot zoning districts from 33 feet to 35 feet.

Noecker said she’d been contacted by developers of modular housing who said the upper limit would higher accommodate three-story structures. The amendment was approved 5-2, with Council President Amy Brendmoen and Council Member Chris Tolbert opposed on the grounds that it might trigger a procedural delay in approval of the general package, which had been scheduled to be voted upon Wednesday.

Brendmoen said further changes are likely down the road. The proposal calls for allowing as much as six units of housing on lots inside an eighth of a mile of transit corridors and designated neighborhood nodes, but Council Member Mitra Jalali said her constituents were occupied with seeing that area expanded to 1 / 4 mile.

Council Member Jane Prince said the multi-part zoning package must be voted upon piece by piece to permit for more feedback on individual components, a request that failed to achieve traction with the remaining of the town council.