140 Mayhew Rd, Clarksville, TN 37040

Multiple Family Residential District

This residential district is intended to promote and encourage the establishment and maintenance of a suitable environment for urban residence in areas of high population density that by location and character are appropriate for occupancy by high-density, multiple-family dwellings and where the maintaining a mixture of housing types is desirable. This district allows a full-range of residential building types, including detached single-family, semi-attached two-family, and attached three-family, four-family and multiple-family dwelling units on individual lots, in multiple buildings or structures on one parcel, and in a conventional or horizontal condominium property regime. Further, this district also allows residential group quarters and dormitories. One of the important purposes of this district is to create adequate standards of residential development in order to prevent overcrowded and unhealthy conditions. The intensity of land use should not be so great as to cause congestion of buildings or traffic or overload existing sanitary facilities. Densities should be limited to provide adequate daylight, sunlight, air and usable open space for occupants or apartment buildings and adequate space for all related facilities. This district is intended to be utilized for parcels on higher classifications of streets close to residentialsupportive-retail services and or employment opportunities.