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. **Approving
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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.
48-330. - Intent. The R-TH, townhouse residence district shall be designated exclusively for townhouse dwellings . It is intended to provide an alternative housing style with architectural controls, limited flexibility in site design, and higher densities than
Read it in the chapter →height. e. There shall be at least four but no more than eight townhouse dwellings continuously connected. f. Generally, no more than two abutting townhouses shall have the same front yard setbacks and abutting townhouses shall
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