Define “Residence”
My deed covenants say …’ No Residence may be constructed with…etc..etc”
Does this exclude a weekend, house?
Does the house’s 911 address need to be on my Drivers liscence ?
Is it my fulltime house?
What if the county permitted drawing are titled …”Seasonal House for Sawzall”
Give me a definition of ‘RESIDENCE”
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For my zoning authority, it means having a kitchen. The other things aren't important, including inhabitants. "Sheds" don't have kitchens. Take the kitchen out of a mobile (or otherwise) home and you have a shed (after a small argument).
PAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!
Edited 7/21/2006 8:35 pm ET by VaTom
Merriam / Websters Dictionary
residence: 1 the act or fact of residing in a place as a dweller or in discharge of a duty or an obligation 2 the place where one actually lives 3 building used as a home DWELLING 4 the period of living in a place
A van down by the river may not have a Kitchen but could be classified as a residence according to Merriam and Webster.
According to your zoning authority would a Summer Kitchen on a patio be a residence. It may be called Summer Kitchen because it is in use primarily in Summer, but it is indeed a Kitchen all year long. Maybe the author of your zoning authority definitions was a fat guy who equated "living" as eating.
Edited 7/21/2006 9:01 pm ET by txlandlord
Nope, just trying to make sense of use. That's what zoning's about, use. Dictionaries have nothing to do with it.
Your summer kitchen example isn't much of one. PAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!
"Does the house's 911 address need to be on my Drivers liscence ?
Is it my fulltime house?"
Those things have to with things like voting registration and taxes. Nothing to do with deed C&R or other zone and building code issues.
For this purpose it would be a building that is designed for sleeping, eating and bathing.
It does not matter if it is used 1 day a year or 365/366 days a year.