“More patio than parking place or storage for power tools, Mariam Khalaf said her garage is primarily for ‘chilling purposes’ — including smoking, eating and watching TV with family and friends, including next-door neighbors Muheeb Nabulsy and his wife, Fatima Mkkawi.  Now, officials in the Detroit suburb are looking at changing an ordinance on garage use, arguing that as people get a little too comfortable hanging out in the garage, more cars are clogging side streets. Dearborn officials say the ordinance-tightening is not meant to target Arabs or anyone else. They say the structures are not meant to be living spaces, so building permits cannot be issued to convert them.”

http://www.freep.com/article/20130702/NEWS05/307020018/Dearborn-cracks-down-on-use-of-garages-for-gathering-place

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