wait ... what ?

"Darkbrador" (darkbrador) 01/13/2020 at 08:32 • Filed to: Happy Monday

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MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > Darkbrador 01/13/2020 at 08:40

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I’ve seen this before but have never found the source or reason why. My assumption is there is some local ordinance that doesn’t allow street facing garage doors or something like that.

Urambo Tauro > Darkbrador 01/13/2020 at 08:42

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I need it!

[googles furiously]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/houses/103145730/ponsonby-villa-with-invisible-garage-has-come-onto-the-market

Just Jeepin' > Darkbrador 01/13/2020 at 08:53

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Ok, but FIX YOUR REVERSE LIGHT.

kanadanmajava1 > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 01/13/2020 at 08:57

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In Finland it’s currently not ok to build a garag e if you cannot turn around in the yard between the garage and the st reet . Because reversing to the street is ve ry dangerous. S o here that kind of thing might be useful (unless your neighbors might catch you) .

ranwhenparked > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 01/13/2020 at 08:59

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Looks like a Victorian era building (or at least a reproduction of one), could also be a historically protected facade that prevented cutting a garage into it. Certainly a clever solution, hope the neighbors weren't all NIMBY about it.

DutchieDC2R > Just Jeepin' 01/13/2020 at 09:14

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I do believe there are markets where the mk6 only has 1 reverse light. 

Khalbali > Urambo Tauro 01/13/2020 at 09:17

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Until I saw the link I didn't even realize there was another car above.

Just Jeepin' > DutchieDC2R 01/13/2020 at 09:17

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That’s bizarre. Certainly the lamp cover is there, pretty odd way to save a buck.  

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > ranwhenparked 01/13/2020 at 09:18

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Yea, that was my thinking. That it might be in a historical district or something which lead to garages not being allowed to face the street.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 01/13/2020 at 09:21

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Some areas have historical building codes that the exterior can’t be altered. There were a couple stories of some elaborate ones in SF. 

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > Just Jeepin' 01/13/2020 at 09:21

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Looks like a Euro spec car. Those generally only have one reverse light, and the other side will replace the reverse light with a  rear facing fog light that is required in Europe.

Just Jeepin' > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 01/13/2020 at 09:37

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Redundancy is good. 

Cé hé sin > Just Jeepin' 01/13/2020 at 09:51

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It only has one! I think. In some places you’re allowed to have a rear fog light in the driver’s side and a reversing light in the other. That’s in NZ so you’d have the rear fog on  the right and reversing on the left. My car is the same.

Cé hé sin > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 01/13/2020 at 09:51

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It's in NZ but they follow EU regs.

Jim Spanfeller > Darkbrador 01/13/2020 at 09:53

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So that’s how cars are born...

Jim Spanfeller > Darkbrador 01/13/2020 at 09:53

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So that’s how cars are born...

ranwhenparked > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas 01/13/2020 at 10:33

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That, and the local government can get touchy about adding curb cuts in urban areas, since it permanently removes a street parking spot. You can argue that you’re only r emoving the spot you yourself would otherwise use, but if it's useable to other drivers when you're not there, that can be a tough sell sometimes.

Thomas Donohue > Darkbrador 01/13/2020 at 10:38

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Depending on the density of the area, that ‘driveway’ would be blocked by a parked car most of the time.

Chariotoflove > Darkbrador 01/13/2020 at 10:41

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That is brilliant. 

shop-teacher > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 01/13/2020 at 12:03

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I have an example. One of the houses we looked at buying, had a 1-car attached garage. Zoning ordinances in my town would have prevented me from expanding that garage, but there was room to build a detached 2 -car garage. Another regulation in my town, is that you cannot have two garages on one residential property, so I was considering putting a door like this on the original garage and pretending I had converted it into living space. That would have been for my wife’s car, then the new garage would have been all mine.

I decided that was too much work, and bought a different house.

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > shop-teacher 01/13/2020 at 12:27

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Another regulation in my town, is that you cannot have two garages on one residential property

I am just imagining someone connecting their second garage with a long breezeway and arguing that since they are connected they are in fact one garage.

shop-teacher > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 01/13/2020 at 13:19

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In the case of this place, that wouldn't have helped. Detached garages are allowed to be much closer to the property line, than attached garages for ... Reasons ... I guess.

BaginaFace > Urambo Tauro 01/14/2020 at 10:46

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Holy crap that house is awesome!