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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]3-5 story single stair walk up apartments (with or w/o elevator) are the next frontier in adding housing density to our low density suburbs.

Long outlawed by zoning and the fire code, British Columbia is taking the lead on rewriting the code to allow for these single stair apartments in order to provide much needed housing, due to the dire need for more affordable and diverse housing types in cities and suburbs alike.

There is a movement here in the U.S. to reintroduce this type of housing to our neighborhoods and communities. [/quote]
Do you live in Montgomery County? The last thing that this county needs is to reduce fire codes for apartment buildings considering how many apartment fires there are on a regular basis. Doesn’t matter what they do in Canada. It’s important to do what makes the most sense this context. Unfortunately, this sort of internet meme, magic beans thinking is a big part of the problem with Planning. Since Royce Hanson, everyone wants to get famous doing something novel but inappropriate for our context instead of bread and butter hard work. [/quote]

It's not just in Canada, it's also in the US, and it wouldn't be [i]reducing[/i] the fire code. Although I don't understand why it wouldn't matter how they do things in Canada, as well as countries in Europe. If they can do it there, why can't we do it here? Are fires different there? Maybe fires are context-sensitive?[/quote]

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