Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Mayor's Signature Makes Salem Gardens Re-zoning Official

Mayor Bill Purcell signed the Salem Gardens substitute bill that codifies the Planning Commission's recommendation that 3 properties of 6 along 6th Avenue at Garfield Street be re-zoned for single family homes to balance out the exploding number of duplexes in Salemtown. He signed it on Friday.

By the way, I met a couple at the Germantown/Salemtown social over the weekend who own the corner lot across 6th from Salem Gardens. They told me that their plans are to build a zero-lot line structure (zero-lot line = cluster housing development in which individual dwelling units are placed on separately platted lots). One popular source says zero lots lines assume dwindling single-family urban lots and cater mainly to baby boom empty nesters.

4 comments:

  1. How flexible is the definition of "zero lot line"? Our home at the intersection of 6th and Garfield was described as "zero lot line", but I can't really tell it apart from a duplex. It is a single building divided down the middle by a shared interior wall. Is a duplex a sub-category of zero-lot line, or are they possibly synonyms?

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  2. Oops, we're at 6th and Buchanan, not 6th and Garfield.

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  3. A duplex is simply a structure that is divided into two living units, usually having separate entrances. While some duplexes are divided by a property line, thus making them zero-lot lines, other duplexes sit within the property lines. In a zero-lot line duplex the shared interior wall is on the property line.

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