Based on what you say, there is in fact no current city-wide rule barring more than 4 unrelated adults from living together. There is instead what I would have imagined - zoning rules that limit houses to a number of different limits depending on what they're zoned for. Seems like some houses are limited to no more than 8, some to no more than 12, some to larger numbers, and only a relatively small set of properties have no limits.
If you're living in a house zoned for "3-family" and one unit has 2 unrelated people, another has 4, and another has 6, you're still fine, right? That it, it doesn't matter that one of the units has more than 4 unrelated people as long as the whole house is within its limit, yes?
What if you're in a house zoned for two-family and one unit has a related family of 4 adults (married couple plus the parents of one of them, say) and the other unit has 6 unrelated people, I think that would still be okay, because the largest set of unrelated adults you can make in this house is 7, which is below the limit of 8 or fewer. Am I right about that?
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RE: Plus or minus four people
Date: 2015-03-23 01:40 pm (UTC)Based on what you say, there is in fact no current city-wide rule barring more than 4 unrelated adults from living together. There is instead what I would have imagined - zoning rules that limit houses to a number of different limits depending on what they're zoned for. Seems like some houses are limited to no more than 8, some to no more than 12, some to larger numbers, and only a relatively small set of properties have no limits.
If you're living in a house zoned for "3-family" and one unit has 2 unrelated people, another has 4, and another has 6, you're still fine, right? That it, it doesn't matter that one of the units has more than 4 unrelated people as long as the whole house is within its limit, yes?
What if you're in a house zoned for two-family and one unit has a related family of 4 adults (married couple plus the parents of one of them, say) and the other unit has 6 unrelated people, I think that would still be okay, because the largest set of unrelated adults you can make in this house is 7, which is below the limit of 8 or fewer. Am I right about that?