What about those houses with RV Garages
We have just about completed our 3 year journey to camp and visit in all of the lower 48 states. As we traveled we often took a look at those southern communties in Arizona, Texas, Alabama and Florida...
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Having built an attached garage with an RV bay mayself, I understand the challenges, added expense, and the reluctance of the surrounding neighbors to accept them into the area.
In planned developments with normal city sized lots, you’ll probably only find neighborhoods where either everyone has one, or nobody has one. I would hazard a guess that the vast majority of HOA controlled neighborhoods would be dead set against them.
If you’re looking to buy or build in an area where hillside lots are common, you might be able to use the slope to your advantage, provided it’s not too steep. Instead of having the RV garage roofline towering over the rest of the house, and the giant garage door dominating the street view, you could build a side-loading garage behind the house with a lower floor.
I tore down an attached flat-roof garage about 6 years ago, and rebuilt one that has over twice the square footage. We added an RV bay downhill from the original 2-car garage that’s 30x30 with a 16’ ceiling and a 14’ door. Despite the height of the RV bay, it has the lowest roofline of the house. Working with an existing structure, we had to work around a few things that were already in the ground that prevented us from making the RV bay deeper than 30’, like the septic tank and underground electric service, but if you were building new you could avoid dealing with that. It’s big enough for any truck camper, or a short class C.
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In planned developments with normal city sized lots, you’ll probably only find neighborhoods where either everyone has one, or nobody has one. I would hazard a guess that the vast majority of HOA controlled neighborhoods would be dead set against them.
If you’re looking to buy or build in an area where hillside lots are common, you might be able to use the slope to your advantage, provided it’s not too steep. Instead of having the RV garage roofline towering over the rest of the house, and the giant garage door dominating the street view, you could build a side-loading garage behind the house with a lower floor.
I tore down an attached flat-roof garage about 6 years ago, and rebuilt one that has over twice the square footage. We added an RV bay downhill from the original 2-car garage that’s 30x30 with a 16’ ceiling and a 14’ door. Despite the height of the RV bay, it has the lowest roofline of the house. Working with an existing structure, we had to work around a few things that were already in the ground that prevented us from making the RV bay deeper than 30’, like the septic tank and underground electric service, but if you were building new you could avoid dealing with that. It’s big enough for any truck camper, or a short class C.
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