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Royal Oak planning staff urges rejection of garage‑width text amendment; commission votes to deny
Summary
The Planning Commission rejected a developer proposal to measure attached‑garage width solely by garage‑door openings, with staff warning the change would exclude many accessory floor areas and could allow garages to dominate front facades. Commissioners urged addressing the issue in the city’s comprehensive zoning rewrite.
The Royal Oak Planning Commission voted to deny a zoning text amendment that would have measured attached garage width based only on garage‑door openings, after staff told the commission the change would apply to only one kind of accessory structure and could let other attached floor area dominate a home’s primary facade.
Joseph Murphy, the city’s director of planning, outlined the ordinance’s existing rule that accessory structures may not exceed 50% of a principal building’s primary facade and described the 2017 Zoning Board of Appeals ruling that the width should be measured at the exterior wall of the…
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