Can a garage door count as an EERO?

[Yikes]

My old garage door was one large single panel, made of a 2x4 wood frame and plywood sheathing. In theory you could build an EERO window into that door, and the plan checker could call it good.

 

[Yikes]

Better yet, if your plan checker is getting stuck on the literal wording of the code instead of its common sense application, look at the residential code definition of “window”, and it says “see ‘Fenestration’”.
That definition is:
[RE] FENESTRATION. Skylights, roof windows, vertical windows (whether fixed or moveable); opaque doors; glazed doors; glass block; and combination opaque and glazed doors.

So if a garage door can become a garage window just by adding some glazing to the panel, do that and then call it an EERO Window. Now the hinging/sliding requirements for doors don’t apply.

 

[MtnArch]

Thank you everyone. I think the garage door with the man door built in is a good solution, just need to find something more local as everything I am finding is in Canada.

Here's a US manufacturer, though they seem to concentrate more on the commercial side with the swing door: https://armrlite.com/