It is the intent of this section to facilitate appropriate intermingling of townhouses, in districts where they are permitted, with other types of housing to provide another means of efficient, economical, comfortable, and convenient use of land and open space to serve the public purposes of zoning by methods which are alternative to conventional arrangements of yards and building areas.

Pursuant to the intent set out above, the following regulations shall apply to townhouses, except that said restrictions shall not necessarily apply within the PUD, Planned Unit Development district:

1.

To avoid monotony of construction and confusion in locating houses, building lines of houses in the same row shall be staggered and facades of individual houses be varied by a minimum of two (2) feet.

2.

Not more than ten (10) contiguous townhouses or less than three (3) shall be built in a row with the same or approximately the same building line.

3.

Minimum width for the portion of the lot on which a townhouse is constructed shall be eighteen (18) feet.

4.

Lot area shall average no less than two thousand four hundred (2,400) square feet, and the minimum of any single lot shall be two thousand (2,000) square feet.

5.

No portion of a townhouse or accessory structure in or related to one group of contiguous townhouses shall be closer than twenty (20) feet to any portion of a townhouse or accessory structure related to another group or to any property line.

6.

No side or rear yard, as such, is required in connection with any townhouse, except that the front yard shall be no less than thirty-five (35) feet in depth from the front property line to the building line and the side setback for corner lots shall be the same as the front setback. End buildings in each townhouse group shall conform to the side yard requirements for the district in which they are located. Each townhouse shall be located on its own lot.

7.

Insofar as practicable, off-street parking facilities shall be grouped in bays, either adjacent to streets or in the interior of blocks. No off-street parking space shall be more than two hundred (200) feet by the most direct pedestrian route from a door of the dwelling unit it is intended to serve. On major thoroughfares, common parking facilities for three (3) or more automobiles shall provide space outside the public right-of-way for maneuvering incidental to parking.

8.

Density shall not exceed the maximum dwelling units per acre permitted for the zoning district within which the subject property is located, as specified in section 1502.