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Driveway Drama and Design


City of Sacramento Building Code requires us to lay a concrete driveway even though our garage entrance is onto an unpaved and seldom used alley..(And in spite of the fact that we won't be parking our cars in our garage or on this driveway!) Our neighbor across the alley built his house a year ago and they didn't make him put in a concrete drive......We are compromising by putting in concrete pavers with gaps that we can plant into....Defining the space will be a twelve inch band of concrete.......The primary viewing of this garden will be from the picture windows on the second floor, the view from up there is shown on this picture.

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