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In what condition which a house is only permitted on top of a house?

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sunyaer

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A friend of mine asked this very interesting question:

In Ontario building code, inn what condition which a house is only permitted on top of a house? Row town houses?
 
Oz? As in the land Dorothy and Toto go to meet the Wizard of Oz? Of course that was a house above a witch, not another house.
 
sunyaer said:
A friend of mine asked this very interesting question:

In Ontario building code, inn what condition which a house is only permitted on top of a house? Row town houses?
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The use of the term "only" would suggest that the house is not permitted to be located to the side.

This is not a function of the building code, but a function of zoning and economics.

The only thing that would restrict this is the land. If you physically do not have the area to construct beside, you would need to construct above. Apartment buildings are an example of this. There is not the land to construct them side-by-side, so they construct them dozens of stories tall.
 
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