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Planning Department previews new garage review policy, adds safeguards for historic buildings
Summary
Planning staff proposed a bulletin to guide when garage permits can be approved over the counter, include special treatment for buildings 50 years or older, and require coordination with DPW on minor encroachment permits. Commissioners and public pressed for clearer language on bay windows, interior impacts and transit-street definitions.
Planning Department staff outlined a new policy on Oct. 5 to clarify how garage permits will be reviewed, when minor applications will be signed off over the counter and when projects should be routed for formal discretionary review.
The proposal would (1) treat garages for historic resources as discretionary, (2) identify historic resources as buildings built in or before 1920 or 50 years or older, (3) discourage raising historic resources when that would jeopardize eligibility for the California or National Register of Historic Places, and (4) ask applicants to coordinate with the Department of…
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