• No parking

  • Single-stair buildings

  • A street width most fire departments wouldn’t allow

  • black0ut@pawb.social
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    7 days ago

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

    • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
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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 It’s an outdated code that is the reason three bedroom apartments are rare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