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Have fun with the Portland permitting office- they're not going to let you do anything. I mean, they'll let you rebuild the garage, but they won't let you make it any bigger & have fun trying to modify the driveway/sidewalk ($$$$$). You should've bought out in the 'burbs.
i don't know how much you spent for that but i think you chose poorly... also on top of all that crap its in AntiFa Land... i am just looking on zillow .. what did you pay for that? I hope you didn't pay over 400k because you can get 10 acres and a huge pole barn garage for $600k outside of town.. with no radon... gees
Lots of good info on here about the setbacks for that garage...definitely check the setbacks and DO NOT tear the garage down until these are understood. In some of these instances the garages are "grandfathered in" and are allowed to be in their current location setbacks aside. This being said normally you can add on as long as you go no further over the setback if that makes sense? But by tearing down the existing structure now you are obligated to bring everything to code meaning you can no longer build the garage back in its current location if the setbacks have increased.
You seem like way too smart of a guide to be living in that Democratic stronghold woke community. Just wait till you go to get permits to build things, it is damn near impossible to get anything done but yet they allow people to take over city blocks for months. They arrest people going to work do not arrest people for burning buildings down. You should have gotten the hell out of a Dodge and went to Florida or Texas.
The sidewalk you will likely have to do a lil "ramp", but when you widen the driveway and reduce the angle, you could do two birds with one stone, as you're removing dirt, drop the over-all height of the height of the driveway side of the lot 2 feet. That will reduce the severity and length of the ramp post-sidewalk and lengthen the flat surface you can park on in the driveway. This is something common in places like here in Ireland. Mine was the opposite, I had to increase the height where my new garage is going, so my slab actually sits ABOVE the old garden level by 7 inches at one point. I made a little ramp to keep the water running away and did a mow-able driveway to the garage, so it absorbs water and looks pretty. And Just get a big roll-off skip and use a machine to remove that soil all in one go (you could fix the sewer at the same time - so bonus!) And if you want to have something very James Bond, while you have the ground open, you can make a tunnel from the house to the garage that enters into a sub-level/pit in the garage.
oh yes he can, when you can't build out too far you go lower and higher, he can have a three story garage by going down into the ground leveling out the driveway giving him the first floor, then the second is ground level (back yard ground)with a catwalk in an "L" shape with a first floor staircase access, then the third could be either half the garage or less depending on how high two car lifts can raise giving him room for four cars. The third floor can be the ultimate hidden man cave...All he'll need is to move it back about six foot to extend it and then go out 2-3 foot on each side. The garage or a garage usually gives you extra space for a car, if not he can use one lift to have his two car garage, but four sounds twice as nice...
Buying a house is great but 50k over asking price for a project is way too Much. He should’ve just built his own house and would’ve been a better neighborhood. His lambo looks so out of place lol
Chris, at 15:02, u can even get rid of both "side curbs" along the driveway, & extend sqft of ur garage forward/sideways, provided there's enough remaining slope to be reworked, so ur Lambo can enter. Edit: I've read some comments, check if there's required easement between the fence & the garage 1st.
