How do you treat requests to add a bedroom onto a side of a dwelling unit but separated from the dwelling unit by a garage?

[Inspector Gadget]

The laundry sink can be a kitchen sink. A microwave and a hot plate are the cooking facilities. This is a rental setup. Planning Departments tend to frown on additions that do not communicate with the main dwelling.

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That there is a duplex. It's got its own garage!
Under Canadian Code, that would require a 1-hour fire separation between the two garages, and the "existing door" would have to be a 45-minute rated unit. Fire sep would have to run from floor to roof deck.

 

[SCBO1]

So this would be a tri-plex?

 

[SCBO1]

ICE,
Not sure the hamster family would agree with you!

 

[Penguin87]

"You can't tell me I can't have a second washer, dryer, stove, and air exchanger in my house". - said by developer

Nope. But I can call it a second dwelling unit. Planning can tell you that you can't have a second dwelling unit though. Also, have fun with your septic field that was already maxed out for the lot.

You think thats bad? One of my family members watched a 4 story "house" get built at the end of her street. Developer called it a 3 story house over a 1 story basement. Except the "basement" has wood walls and the floor is at grade (flat site).
No engineering. 6 kitchens, 12 bathrooms. Single unit that has since had the ground floor converted into a daycare.

Brand new construction, no sprinklers (Oregon requires sprinklers for all new residential construction). Located in Portland. Its completely bonkers.

 

[Yikes]

From a building code standpoint, there is nothing that prohibits an exterior route of travel between the bedroom and the the rest of the house. We used to call that a “hacienda” style home, where a perimeter colonnade provides circulation.


The floor plan posted certainly looks like it is intended to be used as a separate dwelling. But that was not the OP question.