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Any chance you can cite the case, when decision is published?


It is expensive to convert a building. Not exactly low cost, nor low income capable.


Fire codes and building codes are an impediment to modifying distance from openable windows, for bedrooms.

Novel means changing the national fire code, which was written the way it was for a reason.


> means changing the national fire code

Skyscraper windows aren’t usable for egress. This is a solved problem.


I can absolutely see the safety argument for distance from a window. Fair! But I will say, as someone who made his windowless basement his bedroom even though I had other options in my home, I love a super dark space to sleep.


Yes. And in a city, it can be made more quiet.

And there are techniques to transporting natural light indoors.

This thread's obsession with bedroom windows, egress out them from 20 stories up, and "code" is nuts. We are in a housing crisis that is destroying the economic viability of several generations.

You could also have ceiling to floor OLED displays, or just a large display that shows the current view of the outside.

I also don't understand why they can't basically put large corridors across the building in addition to light transfer, more common space than hallway to provide more light if the interior residents want it.

Fundamentally, people want a safe, affordable place to sleep, go to the bathroom, and eat. Windows and views just need to be a quick walk away.

I possibly spend less than .1% of my time at home looking out a window. My bedrooms generally have the windows completely covered to maximize my sleep.

At generic hotel-motel rooms I almost never open the curtains.

It's ridiculous this isn't simply put up to market economics.

Finally I have a great idea for internal areas: simply provide them as storage units. Cheap, no water, minimal electricity, still makes money, and its one of the things people complain about city living.


It was originally created to demonstrate the evils of capitalist routines. Then bought by a game company.

See wiki article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_(game)


Rubber crumbles are a base layer under astroturf.

Thus a very large number of hig h school fields have astroturf and rubber crumbles.

On pro-football broadcasts, you can occasionally see clouds of rubber dust during a tackle.


Lose the V1 at the end of the URL.


Gravel, $20 a ton.


Now all dead. Apparently on the way down.


Louisiana has a civil law system, subject to the Federal Constitution.


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