103 Poetry Rd, Terrell, TX 75160

Multifamily Residential District

The multifamily residential MF district is an attached mixed-use residential district intended to provide the highest residential density in close proximity to retail and employment centers. The principal permitted land uses shall include nonresidential uses on the street level with multiple-family dwellings above or live/work units on the street level with multifamily dwellings above. All multifamily structures shall be located facing public street frontages with a minimum ten-foot wide landscape buffer and a maximum of two rows of parking for the nonresidential uses located on the ground floor. Residential parking shall be located at the rear of the structures. This district shall be located adjacent to neighborhood services NS, retail R, central business district CBD, highway corridor HC, commercial C, or light industrial LI districts and serve as a buffer between nonresidential development or heavy automobile traffic and medium- or low-density residential development as well as support for retail or employment centers. Live/work units are defined as ground floor units structurally designed to accommodate nonresidential uses with a home-based occupation, office or small scale low impact retail business (i.e. ADA accessibility built-in for example) which typically start out as residential dwelling units but can be also be used for permitted fulltime nonresidential uses. Lease contract shall not prohibit or eliminate allowed live-work or other nonresidential uses. Recreational, religious, health and educational uses normally located to service residential areas are also permitted in this district. Areas zoned for the MF district shall have, or shall make provision for, City of Terrell water and sewer services. They shall be designed to adequately accommodate storm drainage; they shall have paved drive aisles with logical and efficient vehicular circulation patterns.