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Like football, plans of development can be a game of inches.

The Henrico County Planning Commission on Wednesday deferred a revised plan for the first phase of a proposed 130-unit town house development in the Brookland District after a lengthy discussion on issues, including the size of the two-car garages attached to the units.

“With respect to the garage sizing, I’m certainly not prepared to make any changes with those,” said Danny Blevins of Kotarides Developers.

A lot of the architectural design and site layout work already has been done, Blevins said, and expanding from one-car to two-car garages already presented challenges.

“We just have a hard time fitting the entrance in and the garage in,” he said.

The length of some of the garages allows for less than 19 feet of space for each vehicle. Some large SUVs, such as the GMC Yukon XL, and some pickup trucks exceed that length.

“If we try to enlarge the garage any further, I think it’s going to start compromising the interior of the house from a living space standpoint,” he said.