Interesting to note that the root of the complaint was not the number of residents, but the number of vehicles or parking spaces used. Some of those numeric re

Interesting to note that the root of the complaint was not the number of residents, but the number of vehicles or parking spaces used. Some of those numeric residential restrictions date from times when it was hard to distinguish between an informal/unlicensed boarding house catering to single women and a bordello, so a numeric limit was used to avoid having to distinguish. Source: friend whose sorority house exceeded the limit.