“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.”
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