• Welcome to the new and improved Building Code Forum. We appreciate you being here and hope that you are getting the information that you need concerning all codes of the building trades. This is a free forum to the public due to the generosity of the Sawhorses, Corporate Supporters and Supporters who have upgraded their accounts. If you would like to have improved access to the forum please upgrade to Sawhorse by first logging in then clicking here: Upgrades

Carriage house vs. garage footprint

Y

Yikes

Gold Member
Joined
Nov 2, 2009
Messages
3,069
Location
Southern California
the CBC 202 definition of "carraige house" is:
CARRIAGE UNIT. [HCD 1-AC] A dwelling unit with living space on one or more floors immediately above a Group U, private garage or garages. The footprint of the garage or
garages is used as the footprint for the remaining floor or floors of the units above and the garage level contains no habitable space.

1. If I have a 24'x24' garage below, and a 24'x28' carriage house above (house cantilevers 4' beyond the garage door ), is it still meeting the definition of "Carriage unit"?
2. Must the stairs to the unit above be exterior-only? Or can it be part of a downstairs hallway, since hallways are not considered "habitable space"?
 
1) Previous post

Carriage Units

Local developer purchased two parcels, one has two existing 4-plex's, the other parcel has one 6 unit apartment building, both parcels are adjacent to each other. We had a pre-application meeting last night, would like to construct a 6 unit and a 3 unit apartment above carports on the parcel...
www.thebuildingcodeforum.com
2) I would accept it if it were part of the same unit and not a "common" hallway.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top