Architectural Design Standards

September 23, 2009

ADS 5.15 Garage Doors

Residential
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ADS 5.15.1 Intent.

Multiple garage doors on a building dominate the facade and make a building appear out-of-scale; garage doors shall be minimized on building fronts.

Standard:

ADS 5.15.2 Garage Door Width.

Garage Door Width shall be no more than nine (9) feet wide on a building front.

ADS 5.15.3 Maximum Coverage.

Garage doors of attached garages on a building front shall not exceed fifty percent (50%) of the total length of a building front.

ADS 5.15.4 Paired Garage Doors.

No more than three (3) garage doors shall be located next to each other on a building front. If more than two (2) garage doors are located next to each other on a building front, at least one garage door shall be recessed or projected at least four (4) feet from the other garage doors.

ADS 5.15.5 Mixed-Use Districts.

No garage doors are allowed on a building front in a Mixed-Use District.

ADS 5.15.6 Garage Door Detailing.

Garage doors shall provide raised panels and other architectural detailing to enhance the main building architecture.

ADS 5.15.7 Garage Door Color.

Garage doors shall be painted to coordinate with the main building color; garage doors shall in general not be white except when white is a predominate color on the main building.

Don’t Do This:
This is not allowed because garage door take up more than 50% of the front facade length.	This is not allowed because the garage doors are wider than 9'.

Don’t Do This:

photo of residential building with garage doors

This is not allowed because garage door take up more than 50%

of the front facade length.

This is not allowed because the garage doors are wider than 9'.

Do This:
This is not a building front, so garage doors are permitted to take up more than 50% of the building length.	These garage doors are offset 4' from each other; this is only required when more than 2 garage doors are located next to each other.
This building front has no more than 50% of the building length occupied by garage doors; three garage doors are located next to each other, but one of them is correctly offset at least 4'.

Do This:

This is not a building front, so garage doors are permitted to take

up more than 50% of the building length.

These garage doors are offset 4' from each other; this is only

required when more than 2 garage doors are located next to

each other.

This building front has no more than 50% of the building length occupied by

garage doors; three garage doors are located next to each other, but one of

them is correctly offset at least 4'.

Effective on: 1/1/1901