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<baltimore-city-law heading="Subtitle 2 – District Descriptions">
  <section prefix="§" num="9-201" heading="R-5 Transitional Residential District.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Neighborhoods.">The R-5 Transitional Residential Zoning District is intended for those areas that facilitate a transition from primarily single-family neighborhoods to neighborhoods that contain a wider mix of housing types.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Housing types.">The R-5 District is meant to accommodate single-family units in both detached and semi-detached dwellings, rowhouse developments, and limited low-rise multi-family garden apartment developments of a moderate density.</para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 16-581</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="9-202" heading="R-6 Garden Rowhouse Residential District.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Neighborhoods.">The R-6 Garden Rowhouse Residential Zoning District is intended for primarily low density rowhouse neighborhoods that reflect a naturalistic environment typified by open and landscaped front yards of buildings that are set back and that contain stoops and porches oriented to those yards.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Housing types.">The R-6 District is meant to accommodate single-family units in both detached and semi-detached dwellings, rowhouse developments, and multi-family developments of a moderate density.</para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 16-581</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="9-203" heading="R-7 Mixed Residential District.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Neighborhoods.">The R-7 Mixed Residential Zoning District is intended for those areas that offer a diverse range of housing types.  Development in this district accommodates a transition between naturalistic and urban residential settings.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Housing types.">The R-7 District is meant to accommodate a diverse range of housing types, including detached and semi-detached dwellings, rowhouse developments, and multi-family developments of a larger scale than found in the more restrictive residential districts.</para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 16-581</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="9-204" heading="R-8 Rowhouse Residential District.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Neighborhoods.">The R-8 Rowhouse Residential Zoning District is intended to accommodate and maintain the traditional form of urban rowhouse development typical of many of the City’s inner neighborhoods, which contain continuous, block-long rowhouse development built to or only modestly set back from the street.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Housing types.">Although rowhouse is the predominant housing type, this district also accommodates other residential types, of a similar density, including detached and semi-detached dwellings, and multi-family developments of a larger scale than found in more restrictive zoning districts.</para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 16-581</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="9-205" heading="R-9 Multi-Family Residential District.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Neighborhoods.">The R-9 Multi-Family Residential Zoning District is intended for those areas with significant green space surrounding development, particularly higher density housing and non-residential uses.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Housing types.">The R-9 District contains a mix of higher density, but predominantly mid-rise, housing types.  Permitted housing types include single-family homes, both detached and semi-detached, rowhouse developments, and multi-family developments, all with significant front yard open space.  Characteristic of this district are multi-family developments sited with significant front yard open space and rowhouse developments with open space both along the perimeter of the site and within the development.</para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 16-581</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="9-206" heading="R-10 High-Density Residential District.">
    <text>The R-10 High-Density Residential Zoning District is intended for areas of significant density accommodated in concentrated high rise and rowhouse development environments.</text>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 16-581</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
