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Spacious apartments aren't nearly as possible in the US because of various deficiencies in our building codes, one major one being that single stair buildings a
by astrange 3y ago
Spacious apartments aren't nearly as possible in the US because of various deficiencies in our building codes, one major one being that single stair buildings aren't allowed, which means apartment buildings have to be built like hotels.
- delfinom 3y agoSeattle allows single stair buildings. US building codes aren't national but local. The local may point to one of the national association standards like the IBC or NFPA standards and such. But they then add/remove from those standards as they like. This is a problem people need to take up on local level.
- astrange 3y ago> Seattle allows single stair buildings. I know. Nobody else does though. They still have enough other changes that we can't build something like a cavernous old NYC apartment, though I don't remember the other issues. I think it might be related to nobody wanting to build condos because they'll get sued for it.