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Fourplex and Townhouses
Smart Bylaws Guide – Compact Complete Communities – Duplex, Triplex,
Fourplex and Townhouses
One of the easiest ways to create more affordable housing and
increase density is to allow attached dwellings in single family
districts. Attached dwellings maintain a single family design while
intensifying land uses.
Burnaby
The City's R6
District has allowed for row housing on individual fee simple
lots for over thirty years. Lot sizes must be a minimum of 220
square metres (2,368 square feet). A Greater Vancouver Regional
District
case
study indicates that interest is growing in fee simple attached
ownership.
Surrey
The City's
Multiple Residential (15) Zone (21.1, p.257) allows
for development of family-oriented, low density, ground-oriented
multiple unit residential buildings and related amenity spaces,
which are to be developed in accordance with a comprehensive design
in existing urban areas and in new urban areas where density bonus
is provided.
Okotoks
The purpose of the
Okotoks Residential Low Density Multi-Unit
District (Section 14, p.97) is to provide for duplex development.
Side-by-side duplexes require a lot size of 279 square metres
(3,003.21 sq. ft.) for each dwelling unit while up and down duplexes
require a total of 464 square metres (4,994.62 sq. ft.). Home
occupations are allowed, as well as some other discretionary uses
such as childcare facilities.
Victoria
The City's Low Density Attached Dwelling District (R-J) allows
for up to four dwelling units in each attached dwelling.
For More Information
Greater Vancouver Regional District staff have created two
editions of the Ground Oriented Medium Density Housing best
practices series (2000 and
2003). The series present case studies of
excellent medium density projects. The case studies explain the
project, provide photos or diagrams, and list contact information
for staff in the municipality.
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