My draft snout house regulations, from the "Architectural Design" section of the draft land use regulations I'm working on.
202 Single family and two family architecture
202.05 Purpose. A home can be an expression of the owner’s personal tastes and individuality. Residential architecture in Florida towns is influenced by a number of sources, reflected in the wide variety of styles and themes encountered in residential areas developed before World War II. The intent is not tregulate or restrict particular residential architectural styles, but rather to preserve the Town's unique character by ensuring interesting, high quality residential architectural design.
202.10 Facades. Facades must be articulated by using color, arrangement, or change in materials to emphasize the facade elements. The planes of the exterior walls may be varied in height, depth or direction. Design elements and detailing, including the presence of windows, window treatments, trim detailing, and exterior wall materials, must be continued completely around the structure. All doors and windows must be detailed to add visual interest to the facade unless such treatment would be incompatible with the architectural style of the building.
202.15 Garages
202.15.01 Avoiding garagescapes. New housing development should avoid front elevations that result in a streetscape consisting mainly of rows of garage doors ("snout houses,” tail pipe architecture," “garagescape”). A front-loading garage may occupy up to 50% of the house linear frontage, and may protrude up to 6’ (1.8 meters) from the longest front wall.
202.15.02 Three car garages. Garages that are designed to serve more than two cars must be designed so garage bays beyond the first two are recessed by 4’ (1.25 meters) or more from the main garage frontage.
202.20 Repetitive design. Development of ten or more single-family and two-family houses must have four or more different types of housing models. (Different trim levels on houses that have a nearly identical floor plan are not considered different models.) Houses with identical or similar building elevations and/or floor plans must not be located on adjacent lots or directly across the street from each other.
202.25 Driveways. An impervious surface may cover up to 33% of the area between front building line and the front property line. Driveways from a street (not an alley) must be 20’ (6.1 meters) or more in length, measured from the property line, or the back of the sidewalk if the sidewalk is located outside the public right-of-way.
202.30 Air conditioning. Residential air conditioning units must be located to have the minimum visual and noise impacts on adjacent dwellings.
