HomeMy WebLinkAbout1974 10-08 Maplewood rejecxts no-maximum garage proposal DISPATCH IMaplewood rejects
n -maximum
garage proposal
Aproposal for a no- Gide what percentage of
maximum garage size in the structure should be
Maplewood was rejected devoted to garage.
4-0 recently by the city Miller told of a need for
council. more than the customary
Now the maximum is two-car garages because
750 square feet. of an increasing number
But City Manager Mi- of three and four-car fam-
chael Miller. with support ilies and the popularity of
' from City Planner Robert recreational vehicles such
R e e d, recommended as motorcycles, bicycles
going with no maximum, and snowmobiles.
at leastfor a while. It's better, he said, to
They suggested. in- park the additional vehi-
stead, that the city could cies in a garage than to
have adequate control by leave them in a driveway .
limiting structures to coy- or on a street.
er a maximum 35 per cent Councilman Burt Mur-
of the lot. dock seemed to sum up
The homeowner, they council opinion when he
said, should be free to de- said he wasn't necessarily
opposed to increasing the
maximum size for ga-
rages.
But he said he was op-
posed to an open-ended
maximum.
Planner Reed warned
the council that the pre-
sent code fails to clearly
prohibit an indefinite
number of 750-square foot '
garages on a single par-
cel.
And the code also has
no maximum size for a
basement or accessory
buildings other than ga-
rages,he pointed out.