§ 7.1. Apartments, townhouses and condominiums.

Within the districts permitting multifamily units, the following requirements shall apply:

7.11

No more than eight (8) continuous apartments, townhouses and condominiums per floor shall be built in a row with approximately the same front line.

7.12

No side yard is required except that on corner and interior lots the end of the building in any grouping shall conform to the side yard requirements of the district.

7.13

No more than twenty-five (25) percent of the lot area shall be occupied by buildings.

7.14

Insofar as practicable, off-street parking facilities shall be under habitable floors of buildings or grouped in bays, either adjacent to streets or in the interior of blocks, and no off-street parking shall be more than 100 feet by the most direct pedestrian route from a door of the structure it intends to serve.

7.15

All multifamily developments shall be required to tie into a public or private water system and a public or private sanitary sewer system operating under the conditions of an NPDES permit from the Alabama Department of Environmental Management. No other means of water supply and waste disposal shall be permitted.

7.16

All other requirements within the district in which the apartments, townhouses or condominiums are located shall prevail.