Single family homes are not townhouses - San Francisco's unique architecture
A reader asks:I've always wondered this. Why are buildings considered single family homes in San Francisco and not town homes when most of them are built side by side with no yard?
Our answer:
San Francisco is one of the most unique and architecturally interesting cities in the world. Part of the charm comes from the way San Francisco has made use of maximum number of properties in such a small amount of space. San Francisco proper is only 7 miles by 7 miles so the city planners have allowed most houses to be built to the lot lines. Some neighborhoods such as St. Francis Woods are zoned as R1-D which means they have to be detached single family homes and cannot be built to the lot line. The lots in that area are much larger and can accommodate bigger detached homes. Most other areas the average lots are only 25' wide and 100' deep so a builder has to build across the whole lot in order to get a reasonably sized home.
San Francisco does have some "townhouses" but these are classified as condominiums and not single family homes and they share common walls.
The short answer to your question is, town homes share a common wall whereas San Francisco's single family homes actually have separate walls.
- Janis Stone
posted by SFResidence.com @ 7:25 AM
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