The height of a building at the Indian River Mall shouldn’t have any bearing on the number of apartments in downtown Vero Beach. Earlier this month, a County Commission majority expressed a willingness to consider a request from the mall’s new owner – who wants to build a 45-foot-high hotel on one parcel of a long-neglected property desperately in need of redevelopment – for a variance to the current ordinance limiting building heights to 35 feet.