Building Types

  • Workplace Building: The workplace building may have either single or multiple uses or tenants. Office, industrial, and commercial tenants are typical. Southern mill villages provide examples of how these buildings can reasonably coexist with other businesses and homes.
  • Storefront Building: Storefront buildings may accommodate a variety of uses. A group of storefront buildings can be combined to form a mixed-use neighborhood center. Individual storefront buildings can provide some commercial service close to homes.
  • Civic Building: Civic buildings are used for public purposes. These buildings must be designed appropriately to fit within neighborhoods as integral parts of the community. Their uses include churches, libraries, post offices, and schools.
  • Live/Work Units: Live/work units combine commercial and residential uses within a single dwelling unit of two or more stories.
  • Apartment buildings: Apartment buildings are residential buildings accommodating several households. More than four dwelling units placed one on top of another and/or side by side and sharing common walls and common floors and ceilings, and which are located on a single lot of record.When well designed, this building type can coexist with a variety of other residential building types.
  • Attached Houses: Rowhouse, townhouse, duplex, triplex, or quadraplex houses, generally developed side by side for condominium unit sale, or where land is sold with the dwelling unit. Attached dwellings on individually deeded lots are excluded from the definition of (apartment) multi-family dwellings.
  • Detached Houses: A dwelling unit that is developed with no party walls and with open yards on at least three sides, including modular homes, but not including manufactured homes, mobile homes, or recreational or motor vehicles. Single-family usage only.
  • Accessory Dwelling: A dwelling unit which is located on the same lot as a detached or attached single family house, has a first floor area no greater than 650 square feet, is owned by the owner of the principal dwelling unit but may be occupied by another. If the principal dwelling is a group home, use of an accessory dwelling will not increase the number of residents otherwise permitted in a single group home.
  • Built-upon Area (B.U.): Built-upon areas will include that portion of a development project and/or lots that are covered by impervious or partially impervious cover including buildings, pavement, gravel roads, recreation facilities (e.g.tennis courts), etc. (Note: Wooden slatted decks and the water area of a swimming pool are considered pervious.)