placement of the utility room. Two homes may have identical programmatic require- ments for the utility room in terms of size, equipment and cabinetry. However, depending upon the housekeeping arrangements and operation of the home, the utility room may be placed in distinctly different locations within the house. Consider the layout of a two-story residence with all bedrooms on the second floor. Obviously, ninety-five (95%) per- cent of the clothes, linens and towels to be washed and dried in the utility room will be generated at the second floor level. Therefore, the residential zoning plan will require the determination whether to process the laundry upstairs, at the point of origin near the bedrooms, or locate the utility room downstairs near the kitchen

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so that laundry can be processed simultaneously with daily cooking and housekeeping activities.![]()
Lifestyles play a major role in determining the zoning of a residence.
