Can a house ("residence") be built in a district designated commercial / industrial?
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October 13th, 2018
It only makes sense that you oughtn’t disturb a neighborhood with a pizza restaurant or car dealership. So, yeah, we need commercial districts.
But what about the other way around? Granted, you’d have to be rich to afford the land or taxes. But some corporate parkways and Interstate access roads look like finely manicured and beautiful places to build homes.—replete with security fences and gates, big front yards and back yards for entertaining, in a parklike setting, Some complexes with their state of the art lighting and architecture would even look good to have next door.
And if you were able to live anywhere you want, like your favorite vacation resort, who knows? Maybe you WANT to live right on the strip or boardwalk. It might even be safer than living on a more isolated lot in a neighborhood or in the country.
Me personally, I can’t afford to do much of anything. But I know some fine hotels, hospitals, and corporate parks that would beautiful places for homes. And if one were rich, why not live next door or in close proximity to your favorite restaurants and entertainment?
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Would also welcome any feedback on businesses that might make good places for a home—such as having your own place in a hotel, in an apartment or on the grounds— or places you’ve worked that might have a good place for living
Mixed use areas can have both, residences and businesses. An example – - apartment over a pizza place or dry cleaners.
Some municipalities have strict zoning laws where business means only businesses.
Do you want to build a house next to an industrial business that operates 24/7?
In a town we used to live in they allowed residential to build beside some commercial properties,two being fairly large trucking companies, it didn’t take long before people were bitching about transports coming and going at all times of the day.
A lot of cities don’t allow it because the support services are different. Police aren’t set up for domestic disturbances, fire departments aren’t set up for residential emergencies. Schools and recreation sites aren’t nearby.
And as @SQUEEKY2, nobody wants to be dealing with the hassle of neighborhood nuisance complaints ten year from now.
Planned communities are popping up all over here. There will be shops, pubs, pizza joints and residential all mixed together. My sister lives in one. It’s new construction built in old craftsman style. Very nice.
I think not. Here, just the local codes concerning residential and commercial dumpsters would mean a no. (You cannot have a commercial dumpster in a residential zoned area, you cannot have a residential dumpster in a commercial zoned area.)
Usually, the land has to be zoned residential to be able to live there. There might be exceptions in some places, but I don’t know of them. You aren’t supposed to live in a commercial building or a warehouse.
Having said that, land can be zoned for multiple uses. One piece of land might be zoned both residential and commercial. Sometimes people rezone their house to be able to sell it at a premium. Let’s say you live in a place where the city widened the main road near you and now there is a lot of traffic. More and more businesses are popping up along that main artery. You live there, but the land also gets approved for commercial, so now you can sell it not only to another home buyer, but better yet, maybe to someone who wants to put up a shopping plaza.
Mixed use zoning is often the case in downtown areas. You might have shops on the main floor, and apartments above for instance. Some of this is popping up in suburbs to make convenient neighborhood shopping, or the ability for people to run businesses from their home.
Land that is zoned agricultural also allows for a residential dwelling. Often ag land has a minimum of 5 acres, so that would be one house per 5 acres. You can’t just build another house on your property and sell that off separately if you own 5 acres of ag land. You can’t build a row of townhouses on your ag land. It’s not like my land I can’t do what I want, there are some controls on these things. Sometimes you’ll see 2 acre minimums for ag, sometimes 10. I’ve never seen more than 10, but my knowledge is fairly limited on it
Of course you can, that’s the allure of loft apartments.
In my area, lofts are magnificent and not cheap.
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