A residential proposal on Vision Road in Inverness mostly got the green light from the county deputy zoning administrator last Thursday, over objections that it could set a precedent for large home development. 

Yet the approval came with a few catches—most notably that a decades-old structure called the Windmill, which exceeds county height rules, must be truncated. Curtis Havel, the zoning administrator, also reduced the number of trees to be cut down from 50 to…