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Has any cities in the US pass any city zoning laws or city ordinance on the size of the bedroom.
It big problem here has there no zoning laws or city ordinance and many bedroom are not square but long and narrow or have funny shape and thus make very very very hard to have any thing in the room or can only have bed or dresser on one wall.
These are house price in Canada that cost $200,000, $250,000 ,$300,000 ,$350,000 and even $400,000
I wonder in US if any zoning laws or city ordinance have pass laws it has to be square or no smaller than xx.
I've heard of government trying to get into your bedroom, but this is ridiculous. Zoning ordinances typically limit building to single family homes, with minimum lot and square footage rules. Building codes are the flip side. some require fire sprinklers, minimum electric service amperage and the like.
None that I am aware of. There may be absolute minimums for (example) fire safety and there may be practical construction constraints. Otherwise, there is no need for zoning restrictions/requirements as market forces will generally dictate the minimum size of a bedroom.
I've heard locally something cannot be considered a bedroom if it is captive. Meaning a finished attic can't be sold as a bedroom if you must access another bedroom to get to it, only if there's a hallway leading to it.
Beyond this, I don't think there's any rules. This can be a problem with older housing. I know I've seen houses where they attempted to shoehorn a bathroom onto the upper story when there was no room. As a result, they took a chunk out of a bedroom, leaving an awkward L-shaped remnant which certainly was not big enough to fit a bed in. They would have been better off turning it into a master bath/closet combo and just selling them as one bedroom houses.
There are rules on new construction in some cities--you can't consider a 6x8 foot closet a bedroom, for example, and generally they are required to have a window. San Francisco is considering lowering their minimum size for apartments (it is currently 250 square feet per unit) due to demand.
In Detroit's ordinances, it's stated that a bedroom for one person can be no less than 70 sq ft and should add 50 sq ft for every other person that occupies that room, and that any room other than a kitchen cannot be any less than 7 feet wide (kitchens have to have at least 3 feet between opposite counter-tops).
There's also the standard of ceiling heights having to be no shorter than 7 feet even if it's sloped. It even goes into detail about the minimum square footage the living room, dining rooms, and kitchen ought to be based on how many occupants live in a dwelling.
Glancing at some suburban cities, the codes are less strict/nonexistent or use the international code.
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