• No parking

  • Single-stair buildings

  • A street width most fire departments wouldn’t allow

  • Lumidaub@feddit.org
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    6 days ago

    How does no parking make this spot charming? What does single-stair mean? Single as opposed to what?

    Edit: Right, I see people are sensitive about this and not understanding is illegal. If you’re interested, this looks incredibly normal to me, and I assume there will be some spots for parking around a corner somewhere. It’s also outside so I don’t know what the number of stairs of surrounding buildings has to do with anything. But alright.

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      How does no parking make this spot charming?

      Because if there were parking there, it would not be charming.

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      I assume OP means as opposed to having a ramp or elevator.

      The Americans with Disabilities Act is something I consider a major achievement of this country, and I don’t even have a physical disability like that.

      It’s a level of compassion for fellow humans that seems like it will never happen again and is likely to be destroyed by the supreme court any day now.

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        Ramps benefit all of us, they’re not just for wheelchairs. Have you ever had to push around a moving cart or a stroller? You don’t need a disability, you’ll still really appreciate the ramps!

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          Strong agree. Also, at any moment a person who is otherwise mobile can twist an ankle wrong and end up with a cast temporarily for example. These things are for Everyone’s potential benefit.

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        A lot of those buildings have those small wheelchair lifts on the stairs. Single stair probably refers to a single stair well.

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          If the US is like Canada then its probably referring to the fire code that requires there be two stairwells for anything above a few floors tall. It’s an outdated code that is the reason three bedroom apartments are rare

          This is a good video on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRdwXQb7CfM

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      Wouldn’t be nearly as charming if there were cars parked right next to your table, with those cars presumably coming and going all the time.

      I suspect there is parking just around the corner somewhere and that’s fine.

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      more than one set of stairs, or at least one plus fire escapes, for emergency egress.

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        Interesting, single-stair is still the standard for most residential buildings in Europe. I assume it’s just not that much of an issue if the building is only 5 stories high.