for retirement and pre-retirement households where adult day care, congregate housing, duplex dwellings, multifamily dwellings , townhouse dwellings, patio house dwellings, village house dwellings, weak-link townhouse dwellings, single-family detached dwellings and ancillary commercial activities may be permitted.
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Multifamily dwelling
Named in 3 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 Stafford County Unincorporated’s own text settles what this covers.
areas of high-intensity residential uses designed and intended to be primarily characterized by multifamily dwellings and townhouses. Such districts are to be located at centers of urban concentrations, only where approved water and sewerage are available
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