Garage Door Repair in Dunbarton, Pickering

Dunbarton began as a village in the 1840s, gathered houses through the early and middle twentieth century, filled in with subdivisions at its north end during the 1980s, and still has a pocket of new development underway. The census profile reflects all of that at once: 27 per cent of homes from 1961 to 1980, 18 per cent from the 1980s, 13 per cent from the 1990s, 11 per cent from 2006 to 2010, 10 per cent from before 1960 and 8 per cent each from 2001 to 2005 and 2011 to 2016. Eighty-six per cent of dwellings are single detached, one of the highest shares in the city, so this is overwhelmingly a neighbourhood of houses with their own garages.

The City applies the Dunbarton Neighbourhood Development Guidelines here, which set the permitted dwelling type, minimum lot frontage, front and side yard setbacks and maximum height. Frontage and setback are what determine how a garage can be positioned and how wide it can be, and they are the reason an infill house on an old Dunbarton lot rarely looks like an infill house in a newer subdivision. As a Focus Neighbourhood, the general rules also apply: original one-vehicle garages and carports set back from the front wall, wider integral garages on replacement houses, double garages presenting as two single bays and driveways capped at the permitted garage width.