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Finally! For those that don't know the drawn-out saga, it has been about 2 years since this idea first began in our brains. Truth be told, we always wanted some kind of usable garage at our house (there is currently a very narrow single car "closet" attached to the side). At first we had thought we could build a detached unit, but there was not enough room. At the end of the planning, a two-car garage became a two-storey addition to the back east end of our home. Huge job, considering it's basically a box with a roof. But we'll get a nice double garage as well as usable space above it, so hopefully all worth it in the end. But what a saga so far.
First pass was to get the City of Poco Board to grant us a variance. As it turns out, our home is zoned perpendicular to its address. With the lot being essentially wide, not deep, the zoning was actually for the street around the corner from our home, even though our address was at the front of our house. This turned out to be in our favour, as building the extension would no doubt have been ...
