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Joshua Putnam

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(Nick) wrote in
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what is the difference between single family home and town house?

A "town house" would mean attached housing, maybe just a duplex,
maybe a full-blown row house. The alternative would be a house
sitting on its own lot.

Minor nit -- detached homes don't always sit on their own lot, though
that's still the most common situation.

Many developers have found that they can fit more homes on an acre by
avoiding lot-line setbacks -- the houses are privately owned, but the
land is owned in common by a homeowners association. No lot line
between houses, so no lot-line setback requirements, only the minimum
building separation required by local codes, which is often
substantially smaller than a lot-line setback -- say ten feet between
detached houses, or five feet to the fence-line, vs. ten or even fifteen
feet to a lot line.

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