maybe if you only had 'smart cars'.

What is your climate? If you get snow that will be a pain to get cleared if you use a snowplowing service.

Too bad they don't let you build a 3 story structure with parking on the ground floor ... you could then have a real yard with trees and grass.

Something along these lines, but in the rear?

Do you have alley access in the back you could enter garage from?

If you have the money and if the city allows. I’d put the garage underground (use the driveway at the same location but let it slope down). That way you can have a real yard and you could create an underground connection to your house.

Galore may be talking about something like this, if the city will allow:

Galore may be talking about something like this, but the entry has to be at the front...

Will you be building a two-story house? Perhaps you can do a take-off on a Sarah Susankah house, but the garage would attach to the second story, not the ground floor. I do like how the roof of the garage is used as a terrace.

Sarah Susankah infill house

or, can you do a C-shaped house with a tandem garage attached at the back? Then your outdoor space is a courtyard, with the 4th side being the driveway. Or a regular two-car garage, but you use the inaccessible bay for the bikes and trash cans, and park one car in the driveway.

So you have no alley? And as a result no useable yard? This concrete chaos would deter me from building a driveway at all. We used to live in a house with no driveway and a garage out back accessed via the lane. I was so happy to not have a driveway taking up all of our already small yard space. Do you need the driveway or just the garage?

wow, your site plan is nearly identical to mine! We couldn't make an attached happen either, not enough lot width and no alley. I would try to minimize the concrete in the back yard. Better a 5 point turn to back out of the garage than no yard at all. Thoughtful landscaping is needed to balance all the hardscape.

Another possibility:

Motorized facade.

But I suspect the rigid bureaucrats would say, "Nyet, citizen."

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Here's a 1928 home I owned with a rear garage. No five point turns. Head in, back out.

Worthy, we've got quite a few of the "head in, back out" properties here in LA, even some that were built recently.

I think our town would allow a full underground garage, specially since many lots have slope and the entry could be disguised somewhat, but that is a BIG expense.

Another alternative.

"Tower House," 157 Coxwell Avenue, Toronto. Arch: Spaces by Rohan, Inc.

The house sits on four steel piers and is accessed at the front by a bridge to the sidewalk. Parking is underneath.

After blandifying.

That is some crazy architecture! It seems no one is worried about the "look" of a neighborhood.

Is there any special reason you are not building all the way to the setback line on both sides and back of garage? I don't think a 6 foot strip will be any more useful than a 3 foot strip. Do you have a limitation on total amount of hard surface area? Otherwise, I would build the garage at 31 or 32 feet wide and reduce the depth by a couple of feet

Thank you all for your thoughts! I think our current plan is probably the best option we've got but I'm glad I asked. To answer a few of your questions:

1. We do not have an ally. That would make this so much easier!

2. We are unable to do an underground garage per city rules

3. We had to do a 6 foot setback in the back of the garage to meet our city's rule on pervious surfaces.

4. Street parking is pretty impossible and it snows a lot here so we really need a garage

5. We could do a 1 car garage bay at the front of the house but really need a way for 2 cars to fit and tandem would be tough. The city also doesn't like to approve front garages as we are building in a historic district.