advice about a triple garage plot.

[03ozwhip]

So I might have mentioned somewhere that I'll possibly be building a new place and with a lot of the plotting and planning going on, we found that our driveway, which will have a triple garage 31x23 has only a 15 ft driveway...my truck is 23 ft, not going to work and I'm not parking on the street.

So we came up with this plot of having the double come in on south side of the house which is a 25 ft driveway and the single on the west side of the house with its own 15 ft driveway.

Now I have only ever seen this on one house before and it was just very recently an accident that I even saw it, but I thought it looked kind of cool.

Does anyone have any experience with these type of garage setups and if so, what are the down sides to something like this?

[s_havinga]

pretty sure the city requires a min of 18' for a driveway. Although you could possibly get an easment

[03ozwhip]

I don't live in the city.

[turbotrip]

Can u post a sketch of what ur planning? There are a few unique garage setups in my neighborhood so one of them might be similar to what ur planning to do

[muse017]

Bit counfused but something like this?
https://goo.gl/maps/OI5Nk

[03ozwhip]

Very close, it is a corner lot like that, the double garage will come in exactly like that, but then a single garage will come in on the side where the front of the house is instead of the rear, the garage will still essentially be attached unlike the one you posted.

That's pretty much exactly how our lot will be but where the other garage is, that's our back yard.

[BerserkerCatSplat]

I still don't think I'm visualizing it right. I think this may call for some MSpaint on your part.

Are you talking basically a 3-car garage where you have one driveway for the double door, and then another driveway on the side 90 degrees from it with other door?

[03ozwhip]

Ok, maybe I should have done this from the beginning, here are some plans. The original plan is the one on the left which is west facing, the other plan is the south facing.

The south facing is still the garage, but instead of how it looks there, there will be a double garage.

The west facing has the single and double, but will be only the single, plus Windows etc to make it look nice. Everyone get it? Lol

[BerserkerCatSplat]

It's unconventional, but I don't see why it wouldn't work. The builder would probably need to have the structural engineer re-check loads due to moving your garage openings to adjacent exterior walls, though. No idea what your regulations about driveway location might be like.

[Brent.ff]

Can't help, but gotta ask what truck you drive that is 23' long

[pheoxs]

Originally posted by Brent.ff
Can't help, but gotta ask what truck you drive that is 23' long

I assume extra space on the ends? A F150 long box is 19 feet, then add 2 feet front and back for space to not hit stuff?

[03ozwhip]

Ya, sorry my truck is actually a short box and it's 19' long, I would need at least an extra foot on either end, so 21' not 23' but I'd rather the 23' obviously.

So no one has any actual experience with this type of setup?

[J.M.]

Safe to assume this is going to be a corner lot?

I've never seen this set up before haha

[03ozwhip]

Originally posted by J.M.
Safe to assume this is going to be a corner lot?

I've never seen this set up before haha

It is a corner lot. I've never seen it until a few days ago somewhere between calgary and camrose driving by, I thought it was kind of cool, but I didn't think anything of it until the builder suggested it based on the short driveway issue.

There are a few positives that have come from it, on both sides of the house, no one can park in front or on the side of my house, because both sides have driveways lol

Separate single can be my shop if I wanted and it is super unique to any other house in town.

[leftwing]

I saw a couple houses like this in Bearspaw the other week, if I am correctly picturing what your concept is.

The front door/front of house was facing south, with a two car garage coming out around the centre of the house, and facing east. The single garage was on the west side of the two car garage, and facing south - the same way as the front of the house. It appeared as though it was one big garage with the doors facing their respective directions. I thought it was pretty cool looking.

[ipeefreely]

Originally posted by muse017
Bit counfused but something like this?
https://goo.gl/maps/OI5Nk

That's pretty cool!

Originally posted by 03ozwhip
There are a few positives that have come from it, on both sides of the house, no one can park in front or on the side of my house, because both sides have driveways lol

Don't worry... people will!

I have a corner lot and people park in the stupidest places...

[J.M.]

Originally posted by muse017
Bit counfused but something like this?
https://goo.gl/maps/OI5Nk

haha wtf why is there a tree there?

[relyt92]

Originally posted by 03ozwhip


It is a corner lot. I've never seen it until a few days ago somewhere between calgary and camrose driving by, I thought it was kind of cool, but I didn't think anything of it until the builder suggested it based on the short driveway issue.

There are a few positives that have come from it, on both sides of the house, no one can park in front or on the side of my house, because both sides have driveways lol

Separate single can be my shop if I wanted and it is super unique to any other house in town.

A single and an oversized double is my ideal for the future. Single for the lady and oversized double for my daily and a project with some room for storage and work.

[AndyL]

Trying to think - yes I've seen it - though I've seen more of the 3rd bay as a drive through into the back yard.

Only real issue might be the door facing the adjacent road, not the street address. But that might be easily solved with a variance...

[blitz]

Originally posted by J.M.


haha wtf why is there a tree there?

I remember this house being on the news. Homeowner didn't get a permit for the rear garage, builder and city refused to connect it to the street