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Originally posted by BSUPhiSig'92
Some municipalities have local zoning restrictions that may restrict the number of unrelated people living in a residence (usually three or four), but it isn't legal to base this on gender. Typically this is done to reduce the negative impact of college student housing on residential neighborhoods and property values. Edwardsville has one of these rules in place to help keep property values up. Our only chapter house in town was grandfathered in and has no other residences nearby.
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Right - but that isn't the case in Auburn.
Many (most?) zoning authorities make express exemptions for sorority/fraternity houses anyway - so even the unrelated-person restrictions don't often apply.
That is the case in Auburn - their
zoning regulations define a fraternity/sorority house as a "single dwelling unit" - and so are regulated like a normal "house."
And there are fraternity houses at Auburn - which gives a tip-off there are no such restrictions there.