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Hi,
I'm looking at a lot in Hawaiian beaches. My intention is to build the garage first and live in it for about a year before building the main house in phases. Does anyone know of any restrictions that might keep me from doing this?
Thanks!
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Technically the county has restrictions on living in a garage... it is done... but you have to stay in good with your neighbors
Is the lot in Hawaiian Beaches proper??? (there are 4 subdivisions that are all together, Hawaiian Beaches, Hawaiian Parks, Hawaiian Shores & Hawaiian Shores Rec Estates. These are each about 2 blocks wide, running adjacent & parallel to each other for the length of the housing area from the shoreline up to the upper reaches. HSRE is the most restrictive with CCR's
well, do you intend to permit the garage? Will you be pulling the house permit in phases? It will cost a lot more to do that. If you pull one permit for all, then the garage will not be finaled; you won't have an electrical final, and you'll have a temp power pole with very high rates ... and you have a year to finish your permit.
So it sounds like you should permit the garage separately, but maybe our construction whiz folks know some loopholes on that.
A garage is not a habitable space, so as Carey said it isn't legal, The lots are small down there and it's not going to be as under the radar as what you do up in some forested 3 acre lot, ya know?
