[villagetinker]

Originally Posted by BrianL99

If you're going to quote other's work, perhaps give them credit?

That photo you posted, shows a frame constructed by an amateur and your characterization of what it's likely to take to enlarge a garage door, is grossly exaggerated.

The vast majority of garage doors in The Villages are cheapie, lightweight aluminum doors.

"extra deep concrete reinforcing beams into the ground."? Do you mean columns? Not likely.

& please quote the section of the IBC (or FL Building Code) that "requires a shear wall on both sides of a garage door".

I know for a fact that our garage door are STEEL (a magnet sticks to them) and these are heavy and reinforced (vintage 2013). I will need to review the actual house plans but as I recall there were callouts for the design and construction for all of the openings. I believe the concrete block in these opening is filled with rebar and concrete for extra strength.