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Riverside board asks planning and zoning to pursue text amendments aimed at reducing prominence of front‑loaded garages
Summary
The Village of Riverside Board of Trustees on Feb. 6 directed Planning & Zoning to continue work on zoning text amendments intended to reduce the street-facing prominence of attached, front‑loaded garages and to encourage detached garages through a building‑coverage bonus.
The Village of Riverside Board of Trustees on Feb. 6 directed the Planning and Zoning Commission to continue work on proposed zoning text amendments intended to reduce the street-facing prominence of attached, front‑loaded garages and to encourage detached garages in select situations.
Planning staff (Planner Siren) told the board the two central elements of the draft amendments are: a requirement that attached front‑loaded garages be set back at least five feet from the front face of the house (making some existing front‑loaded garages nonconforming when properties are redeveloped), and a…
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