Brad Ewing
@bradleyewing.bsky.social
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🌌 Astro Enthusiast
I don’t fully agree with this alignment chart but it’s generally correct IMO
November 25, 2025 at 4:25 AM
I don’t fully agree with this alignment chart but it’s generally correct IMO
American single stair regulations are *not* "written in blood." We know this because the proponents literally wrote that they did it as pretext to ban tenements.
![Early zoning proponents understood how zoning could be used to effectively ban certain housing typologies without having to ban them, simply by making them prohibitively expensive to build. Veiller recommended the use of fire codes for this purpose, because “zoning legislation will no doubt be fought strenuously and perhaps defeated." No one would question the importance of fire safety regulations, even when they were used to achieve other aims:
[D]o everything possible in our laws to encourage the construction of private dwellings and even two- family dwellings, because the two-family house is the next least objectionable type, and penalize so far as we can in our statute, the multiple dwelling of any kind... If we require multiple dwellings to be fireproof, and thus increase the cost of construction; if we require stairs to be fireproofed, even where there are only three families; if we require fire escapes and a host of other things, all dealing with fire protection, we are on safe grounds, because that can be justified as a legitimate exercise of the police power... In our laws let most of the fire provisions relate solely to multiple dwellings, and allow our private houses and two-family houses to be built with no fire protection whatever (NHA Proceedings 1913, 212).
The legacy of this strategy remains evident today. The model building codes used by virtually every U.S. city include one code for most residential and commercial buildings, and a separate, simpler code exclusively for one- and two-family structures.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:navu7ggn7ytkcw5bvb7w35d4/bafkreicztuk3q3m5fxnzh5o76em4h3tk4iajixewhho3no277ptyfgg6ky@jpeg)
November 19, 2025 at 12:27 AM
American single stair regulations are *not* "written in blood." We know this because the proponents literally wrote that they did it as pretext to ban tenements.
"destroying Berkeley"
November 17, 2025 at 10:47 PM
"destroying Berkeley"
I feel like death
November 10, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I feel like death
many people have been saying
November 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
many people have been saying
every single Chotiner interviewee
October 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
every single Chotiner interviewee
October 12, 2025 at 12:57 AM
NIMBYs fantasize about backlash that fails to materialize.
In reality, the upzoned homeowners get a windfall; some cash out with multi-million dollar gains. For example, the Bundy Triangle
In reality, the upzoned homeowners get a windfall; some cash out with multi-million dollar gains. For example, the Bundy Triangle
October 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM
NIMBYs fantasize about backlash that fails to materialize.
In reality, the upzoned homeowners get a windfall; some cash out with multi-million dollar gains. For example, the Bundy Triangle
In reality, the upzoned homeowners get a windfall; some cash out with multi-million dollar gains. For example, the Bundy Triangle
cooking in progress
October 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
cooking in progress
