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dwelling

a place where a person lives treating it as his home, for the purposes of housing and rent legislation and which may become the object of protection such as a statutory secure tenancy.

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"Other residential dwellings exist immediately to the north and south and on the opposite side of Golf House Lane.

Revised plans for two homes backed

Creation of dropped kerb to front of dwelling. P/19/0570/2 Applicant Mrs Diane Kimber.

PLANNING APPLICATIONS

Many dwellings, especially in regions with older housing stock (the Northeast for example), have cooking ranges located under windows, making installation of a range hood impossible.

Residential Ventilation for Existing Buildings

Miles Randy A, 2226 Jeppesen Acres Rd; New Single Family Dwelling With Attached Garage; $281,568.

Eugene Building Permits

Under SB 146, in all zoning districts that allow single-family dwellings, municipalities must allow accessory dwelling units as a "matter of right" (no zoning approval necessary), by special exception (issued by a zoning board of adjustment) or by conditional use permit (issued by a planning board).

Navigating New Hampshire's new accessory unit law: when SB 146 goes into effect next June, it will limit the authority of municipalities to regulate accessory apartments

Rose (2012) builds upon Heidegger's work on the notion of dwelling (1962; 1971) to claim, most basically stated, that dwelling 'always already' involves marking and claiming (concepts also based on Heidegger, but more explicitly developed by Rose).

Are residential dwellers marking and claiming? Applying the concepts to humans who dwell differently

The first category covers tenants who have resided for more than ten years in the leased dwellings of the public housing stock, with the house lifetime of no less than fifteen years.

President of Turkmenistan approves procedure for privatization of dwellings

Plaintiffs maintain that their response of "2" to this question was correct because all of the residents of the premises lived together as one "family" or "household" However, based on plaintiffs' interpretation, the logical answer would have been "1." Thus, even if, as plaintiffs claim, all the residents of the premises shared a single "household" in the sense of living together, the premises is a three family dwelling because of its structural configuration, i.e., three separate units, each with its own kitchen, bathroom and separate entrance.

A house with three dwelling units is a three-family house, regardless of number of families living there

If you are wondering why the real estate market has been doing so badly lately, the recently released data on dwellings from the October 2011 census provide a good clue.

Cyprus has a growing housing stock overhang

Additionally missing, is a metropolitan scale (constituent city-by-city), appraisal of the relative significance of intensified dwelling development forms.

Residential intensification in a suburban fringe local government area, Casey, Melbourne Metropolitan area, Australia

DWELLING STOCK IN THE CITY OF MONASH IN 2001 AND 2006

Urban infill: extent and implications in the City of Monash

Improvements to real property directly related to the dwelling units and located on the site of the dwelling units.