I entered {max_height: 500} into tinymcerte.settings. but that did not control the size. But luckily the tinymce docs for max_height was on the same page for the autoresize plugin. I removed autoresize from the plugin list and the issue was resolved.
@jako , thanks for putting me on the correct path to the solution.
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