The RT Two-Family Residential District is intended to afford a transition of land use in existing housing areas by permitted new construction or conversion of existing structures between adjacent residential and commercial, office, thorofare or other uses which would affect residential character. This District allows the construction of new two-family residences where slightly greater densities are permitted. This District also recognizes the existence of older residential areas of the City where larger houses have been or can be converted from single-family to two-family residences in order to extend the economic life of these structures and encourage expenditures for repairs and modernization.
(1975 Code § 5.41)