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Seal Beach Planning Commission approves wider garage at 417 Emerald Place
Summary
The Planning Commission voted 5-0 April 7 to grant a minor use permit allowing a 31-foot-wide garage at 417 Emerald Place after staff found the design met municipal standards and a CEQA categorical exemption.
The Seal Beach Planning Commission unanimously approved a minor use permit April 7 to allow a 31-foot-wide garage on a new single-family residence at 417 Emerald Place.
Associate Planner Patricia Garcia told the commission that Seal Beach Municipal Code section 11.2.05.015 n.2 limits garages within 30 feet of a front lot line to 20 feet in width unless the Planning Commission grants an exception through a minor use permit. Garcia said the proposed garage — a 21-foot two-car bay plus a 10-foot golf-cart bay, totaling 31 feet — would represent about 43.7% of the home's 71-foot residential façade and therefore meets the code’s separate requirement that attached garages not exceed 50% of the front façade.
The subject parcel is an irregular, pie-shaped lot of…
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