HRJoe
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After leaving a 3 car shop behind when we moved to Kentucky 11 years ago, I finally got the opportunity to build a new shop for my car hobby this year.
I live in a rural neighborhood with an active but reasonable Housing Association. Most of the lots are 1-3 acres and outbuildings are pretty much restricted to small sheds (which is crazy IMO) or horse stables. No detached garages are allowed. What defines a garage vs. barn is what's inside (cars=garage, horses=barn). Other restrictions include garage doors (even attached garages) can't face the street and all outbuildings must have "similar construction materials" as your house.
Luckily my lot is pie shaped and is listed as exempt from the no garage doors facing the street rule. So the next challenge was what does it take to be considered "attached". I met with the HOA and they were fairly liberal on this point: they have approved breeze ways in the past so basically anything that physically adjoins the building to the house would work.
At that point, things became easy because we were no longer talking about an outbuilding, covenant rule-wise, but now we're talking about an extension/ addition to my house. So after laying out my site plan with proper easements and such, I fairly easily got approval from immediate neighbors, the HOA, and the Building Permit (in that order). Note that the county still considers it an outbuilding but this is horse country so what I was wanting to do was very typical for them.
So that's the backstory. I started in April of 2016 and am now finally finishing up some details but am starting to move things in so thought I'd start a thread. The building is 32x56x12 with 8/12 pitch (huge for my neighborhood but I followed the rules!).
I'm going to post a bunch of pictures with Tapatalk and then come back later with comments/ descriptions/ answers to questions. Also want to shout out to CarCrazyRDM whose garage most influenced the neighborhood friendly look I was going for..
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I live in a rural neighborhood with an active but reasonable Housing Association. Most of the lots are 1-3 acres and outbuildings are pretty much restricted to small sheds (which is crazy IMO) or horse stables. No detached garages are allowed. What defines a garage vs. barn is what's inside (cars=garage, horses=barn). Other restrictions include garage doors (even attached garages) can't face the street and all outbuildings must have "similar construction materials" as your house.
Luckily my lot is pie shaped and is listed as exempt from the no garage doors facing the street rule. So the next challenge was what does it take to be considered "attached". I met with the HOA and they were fairly liberal on this point: they have approved breeze ways in the past so basically anything that physically adjoins the building to the house would work.
At that point, things became easy because we were no longer talking about an outbuilding, covenant rule-wise, but now we're talking about an extension/ addition to my house. So after laying out my site plan with proper easements and such, I fairly easily got approval from immediate neighbors, the HOA, and the Building Permit (in that order). Note that the county still considers it an outbuilding but this is horse country so what I was wanting to do was very typical for them.
So that's the backstory. I started in April of 2016 and am now finally finishing up some details but am starting to move things in so thought I'd start a thread. The building is 32x56x12 with 8/12 pitch (huge for my neighborhood but I followed the rules!).
I'm going to post a bunch of pictures with Tapatalk and then come back later with comments/ descriptions/ answers to questions. Also want to shout out to CarCrazyRDM whose garage most influenced the neighborhood friendly look I was going for..
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