Here's your last best chance to weigh in on two pieces of legislation that have been churning through city hall for months that will affect the quality of life in Seattle neighborhoods.

Folks can comment on proposed rules to curb the sizes of larger "megahomes" in Seattle's single family zones on Sept. 22 at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall. For more information on what the new rules would do, read this previous story.

Wednesday, the city council's planning committee approved a resolution to consider other rules that might go further in addressing concerns about new homes that dwarf neighbors and seem out of scale.

The resolution orders the planning department to come up with a list of additional potential development rules by Jan. 1, including discincentives to build larger houses in some locations, setting maximum wall heights when they're right next to neighbors and ways to entice homeowners to use natural landscaping rather than concrete.

Here's what planning chair Sally Clark had to say about the new resolution, which reflects areas that council members thought needed more followup:

We've had really good conversations with the community…both to identify what the real problem is and what some of those answers might be. We probably need a range of options because megahouses or McMansions manifest themselves differently whether you're in Cedar Park vs. Pigeon Point.

On Oct. 7 at 5:30 p.m., the council will also hold a public hearing on incentive zoning legislation that would require developers to pay for affordable housing, historic preservation, open space or other public benefits whenever building heights are raised throughout the city. For more on that debate, see this story that ran last month.