Those who are hoping for a little more architectural diversity in Kyle's new subdivisions will have to wait a couple weeks before the issue brought again to City Council. Council originally had plans to hear discussion on a residential style guide that Planning and Zoning Committee thought was necessary after noticing that their neighborhoods were becoming homogenous.  However, early on in the Council meeting on Aug. 1, Mayor Todd Webster announced that Council would not address the proposed guide until a later date.  City Manager Scott Sellers said Kyle’s Planning and Zoning Committee thought the issue should be brought to the council’s attention.  Sellers said while the guide is not complete, the revision would not bring about radical changes. The committee's 5-0 vote to have it presented is what triggered the item being put on the agenda, he said. Webster said similarities in housing style have happened because the council rejected developers that wanted to build different types of housing outside of the current standard. In an earlier interview, Planning Director Howard Koontz said an architecturally homogenous community could lead to harmful results. “To an extent everyone can understand the reason but it could also be foreseen that it could be harmful in the long run to the resiliency for our housing market,” Koontz said. “We sought to raise the bar through the idea of creating standards that made quality products and boosted quality of life without pricing out the development community from being able to build here.” Koontz said housing projects already in process or finished would not have to follow the new guidelines, but all new projects would have to apply the new changes starting effective immediately. The new guideline includes such rules as no cul-de-sacs, faux veneer panels as a primary cladding or homes with similar home plans within three lots of each other. “They are just little attributes, no major revolutionary changes,” Koontz said. “They are just evolutionary things that builders have gotten away from and that we would like to see them go back.” The guide will be brought back to City Council on Aug. 15.