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This is all very interesting. It certainly makes more sense than building a certain way to avoid socialism.
Building a building has nothing to do with politics, it's safety as it should be.
Above I made an error. What I said was
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For Type III-B the maximum allowable height is 55', the maximum number of floors is four and the maximum building area is 16,000 sq. ft.. That is the "footprint" and not the total of all floors.
When Use Group R1 buildings are equipped with automatic sprinkler systems the area is allowed to be tripled to 48,000 sq. ft. and one additional floor can be added which is why you can find some Type III-B buildings at 5 stories and larger than 16,000 sq. ft..
Actually if your building is protected throughout with an approved automatic sprinkler system per NFPA 13, then you may increase the allowable area by 200% (Is = 200) for multistory buildings, or 300% (Is = 300) for single story buildings.
I said 300% for multi-story buildings and that was an error.
Some cities have regulations...any building over six stories by law has to have an elevator in many places. Build less than six stories and you save a lot of money by not putting in an elevator.
Why is there alot of apartments under 6 stories in the sun belt citites and lots of one story store-fronts.Where in the non sun belt citites it is more thing to live above store.
I took these pictures with google street view and uploaded them to flickr
Note I think these one story store-fronts is typical of the 20's , 30's and 40's and alots of them in the sun belt citites for some reason.It seems the non sun belt citites did not really like to build them for some reason.
It seems in the 20's , 30's and 40's they built alot of these one story store-fronts...I wonder if the Mediterranean Revival ,Mission Revival or Spanish Colonial Revival has any thing to do with it.
I'm not sure about other places but in earthquake prone areas of the sunbelt like California, it costs a lot to make a tall building earthquake-resistant.. so they're not built unless land is also scarce (i.e. San Francisco.)
Actually a lot of California isn't very earthquake-prone (like the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys and the Inland Empire) but we tend to have the most low-rise buildings, so I don't really buy that argument, other than where California-wide code requires it and thus disincentivizes building taller buildings in places where land value and earthquake risk are both lower.
Building a building has nothing to do with politics, it's safety as it should be.
Above I made an error. What I said was
Actually if your building is protected throughout with an approved automatic sprinkler system per NFPA 13, then you may increase the allowable area by 200% (Is = 200) for multistory buildings, or 300% (Is = 300) for single story buildings.
I said 300% for multi-story buildings and that was an error.
I don't think you've been following this forum. We have a member who thinks that people live in the 'burbs to avoid socialism I was being sarcastic.
Looks like some rundown part of LA, could be the valley...
Looks like MANY parts of Miami too. except for the mountains in the background of course.
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