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Originally Posted by GGG
The big reason to do is that it makes a much more liveable house.
If you have a 50 foot lot and you need 3 ft on each edge and 3ft between the houses you are down to 20ft wide houses. Sharing a wall that goes up to 22ft. And with narrow houses every bit counts.
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4' on each side in most areas, if I'm not mistaken. So 2 detached homes are each on a 25' lot, but with 8' in sideyards, you're down to a 17' wide home.
A duplex will allow you to have an overall width of 42', so 21' per side... that's an extra 4' in width which makes a big difference.