Spacing question

[Adam12367]

Hello everyone,

New to the forum here. I found this site while doing some initial research for an upcoming project.

Attached is a drawing of my site. I'm on a 50 x 99 foot lot in town. Can only take up 30% (about 600 sq.ft.)of the rear yard with an accessory building. In the drawing you see the existing footprint of the house, garage, and driveway in black. The blue and red drawings indicate possible sizes for the new garage. I hope to be able to put a 4 post lift in one bay and the daily driver in the other. My concern lies in the distance between the house and garage and the ability to crank a car into the right hand bay.

let me know what you all think.

Thanks in advance for any input.

Adam

 

[GMCGarage]

Hello everyone,

New to the forum here. I found this site while doing some initial research for an upcoming project.

Attached is a drawing of my site. I'm on a 50 x 99 foot lot in town. Can only take up 30% (about 600 sq.ft.)of the rear yard with an accessory building. In the drawing you see the existing footprint of the house, garage, and driveway in black. The blue and red drawings indicate possible sizes for the new garage. I hope to be able to put a 4 post lift in one bay and the daily driver in the other. My concern lies in the distance between the house and garage and the ability to crank a car into the right hand bay.

let me know what you all think.

Thanks in advance for any input.

Adam

The bigger the second bay door is, the better.

Set up some cones in a parking lot and drive it. May have to back it in.

 

[Kaizen]

That’s tight. Backing in no problem. I’d go as big as you can on the footprint. Probably best if you use one door which will give you more room to maneuver into the right side with a two post. A four post I don’t think will work. That front post will be in the way of a multipoint Park job on a truck or longer car. Short car will be ok


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[tapered-pin]

what about a building that's 18X26 instead?
put your daily driver in the right bay.

 

[Adam12367]

You guys are quick.

I was thinking an 18' or 20' wide door to give me the most maneuvering room.

I hadn't thought of 18x26. I am looking for a little bit of depth though. Right now the summer car (1977 450sl) fits with not much room to spare lengthwise, Its about 16' or so long, the daily (this year anyway) is a GLK350 at about 15' long. But if gain space on the right hand side and in the rafters for storage that might be doable. Maybe split the difference and go 20x26

 

[Radix2]

Might as well build as big as allowed if you want to do anything besides park. As you go wider, the parking is not getting any worse. If anything, having some more width inside will allow you to swing the car before you get out of the garage. 20x30 maybe with a 20-22 ft door so you can come out turning.

Still will get more space to the back for work or storage. 4 ft less in that backyard isn't going to make much difference either imo.

 

[Adam12367]

Thanks everyone.

I hadn't considered a 20x30. ill stake it out and see what it looks like

 

[Ray916MN]

If you pivot the building ~45deg it will make swinging into the building easier Frankly if the building were pivoted 90deg and placed in the opposite back corner of the lot you might get the best access to the building, but of course you would lose your entire backyard....

 

[tapered-pin]

you haven't mentioned setbacks, I assume you've taken into consideration the property line setbacks (that cannot contain vertical structures unless a variance is received).

 

[Adam12367]

you haven't mentioned setbacks, I assume you've taken into consideration the property line setbacks (that cannot contain vertical structures unless a variance is received).

Good question. The accessory building code here requires a 3 foot setback from the property lines and 10 feet from the dwelling. It also states height to be 1 story OR 14 feet whichever is less. I'm not quite sure how to read that. Is that overall height of 14 feet? Wall height of 14 feet? For reference i have a 1 story house that is just short of 16 feet at the peak.

On a related note I think I've honed in on the footprint. 20deep x 26 wide and then an 8x8 shed in the opposite corner for the lawn stuff. I can post a drawing later if anyone cares to see.

Thanks
Adam

 

[tapered-pin]

overall building height (including any accessories) is usually how it's read.

so you could make a single story building 10' tall OR you could do a single story building up to 14'.

you could NOT make a two story building (even if you were a family of little people and only needed 5' of clearance ~ 13' for the two story structure)..


technically, it also means you couldn't build a two story play house for your small children..