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Board of Appeals upholds planning denial for wider garage door at Telegraph Hill after split vote
Summary
The Board of Appeals voted 3–2 to uphold the Planning Department’s denial of a permit to widen a garage door at 1406 Montgomery Street, after hearing competing arguments about neighborhood design rules and a homeowner’s disability-related need for additional clearance.
The San Francisco Board of Appeals on Jan. 14 upheld the Planning Department’s determination denying a permit to widen the garage door at 1406 Montgomery Street, voting 3–2 to leave the decision in place.
Planning staff told the board the proposed increase — from 12 feet 6 inches to 14 feet 2 inches — would conflict with the city’s residential design guidelines and could degrade the pedestrian realm and neighborhood character. Tina Tam of the Planning Department said the guidelines limit most garage doors in residential neighborhoods to roughly 8 to 12 feet and that even though the planning code allows up to 16 feet in some circumstances, the department saw a negative visual impact that…
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