Here is an Overpass API query that works, it’s simplified to focus only on maxheight ways and the most common error:

[out:xml][timeout:120];
{{geocodeArea:"USA"}}->.searchArea;
(
  way["maxheight"~".*’.*"](area.searchArea);
  way["maxheight"~".*”.*"](area.searchArea);
);
(._;>;);
out meta;