How much larger would a garage need to be so most people parked inside?

Asked by JLeslie (65412) August 11th, 2022 from iPhone

Many neighborhoods with two car garage houses have cars parked on the driveways. Assuming many of these people only have two motor vehicles, how much bigger does the garage need to be? A lot of the time it’s pick-up trucks outside. I have a pick-up truck and very often the garages aren’t deep enough. Even when they are deep enough, the standard 16’ door makes it very tight side to side if both vehicles are large-ish. Difficult to get packages from a side door, difficult to lift your baby out of the car, just to name a few, and just generally having to be very careful not to hit the other car.

Is it just two feet in each direction? For me it is. 22’ deep and an 18’ wide door takes care of everything for me. Most garages are 20’x20’ some are even smaller! Some have a water heater or stairs encroaching on the space and it’s not really 20’x20’. Which brings up another point, houses on crawl spaces should account for the stairs!

What are your observations? Are the garages FULL of stuff and two feet does nothing, or will two feet solve the problem in a lot of cases? Garage space is inexpensive relative to living space.