owned as a dwelling. An apartment shall not be construed to mean a townhouse dwelling. **Apartment building** means a structure containing separate residential apartments either leased or owned; also called apartment house or multifamily dwelling.
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townhouse
Named in 1 of this ordinance’s zoning districts.
How this ordinance defines it
The operative definition is the local one. Codes routinely subdivide a category into tiers — “day care 2, family”, “group home 2” — and attach different permissions to each, so only Falls Church’s own text settles what this covers.
- R-1B, Medium density residential district; - R-C, Cluster residence district; - R-TH, Townhouse residence district; - R-M, Multifamily residential district; - T-1, Transitional district; - T-2, Transitional district; - B-1, Limited business district; -
Read it in the chapter →area perimeter-building setback of 20 feet. In addition, in MUR 1 areas, residential townhouses shall be set back no less than 20 feet from the face of the curb. The 14-foot minimum setback requirement does
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