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Webster Groves boards push back on proposal to remove 40% rule for front-facing garages

Webster Groves Architectural Review Board · September 19, 2025
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Summary

Staff presented three options to alter the city's front-facing garage rules; Historic Preservation Commission and ARB members objected to removing the 40% threshold, favoring proposals that tighten facade-contiguity rules or limit ARB exemptions instead.

City planning staff presented three proposed changes to Webster Groves's rules for front-facing garages during a joint discussion with the Architectural Review Board and referenced input from the Planning Commission and Historic Preservation Commission.

Staff presenter Elliot described the three proposals: (1) remove the requirement that 40% or more of houses on a block must already have front-facing garages before a new front-facing garage can be allowed; (2) require that the garage's front wall be architecturally…

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