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> Even cities that permit arbitrary height (famously Frankfurt am Main) They do? I believe I've heard from a friend who lives there that the fire department re
by nottorp 2y ago
> Even cities that permit arbitrary height (famously Frankfurt am Main)
They do? I believe I've heard from a friend who lives there that the fire department recently shortened a few planned buildings because they could not guarantee reaching higher than $X meters. (Said $X is over 100, but less than they initially wanted to build.)
I don't have any hard sources tho.
- tichiian 2y agoNot sure where the actual limit is or if they changed it, I also don't have any hard sources, just heresay that there is "no limit". But there are 20 buildings over 150m, and 6 over 200m, so it probably is or was quite a bit above 100m. And if it is due to the usual fire brigade ladder height problem, that would be at most 68m currently: https://www.magirusgroup.com/de/en/products/turntable-ladders/m68l/ https://www.magirusgroup.com/de/en/products/turntable-ladder... (around here in a smaller town, a company got a 50m building permit when they paid for the new fire truck with a sufficiently long ladder).