Do beachside towns in California often allow street parking by non-locals? On the east coast this is almost unheard of (NYC, with no RPP program, is the exception), so there isn’t even really a mechanism for increased demand for parking from locals to crowd out free parking for non-locals.

Yes, this is very extreme. What is this for? Anything? Can we please discuss over email? If you have a link to the meeting video that I can watch, even better. stephen@centerforbuilding.org

The alternatives are really bad for the environment…remember the ozone layer being depleted! It’s that stuff.

The fire safety issue is totally imaged, Seattle has allowed for generations what the Portland FD won’t (and actually with even taller buildings) and it’s been fine.

Do you have other examples of code sections they use?

What if I gave the firefighters a break and went to war with the NFRC next?

Meaning it doesn’t CCC-proof itself, or it doesn’t give the CCC an explicit exemption (so instead they seized one for themselves)?

I don’t have any lists

Lmao what a villainous document

Memo on Coastal Commision’s thinking here

documents.coastal.ca.gov/assets/lcp/D...

For AB2097 projects (within 1/2 mile of major transit stops) the Coastal Commission’s authority to require parking has been limited but they don’t like this and will instead require in-lieu fees or other “mitigations” which has the net effect of causing developers to just build the parking.

But do you know the answer to my question? Does the CCC overrides the state’s parking minimum relaxation for multi family projects on privately owned land? Or is this sort of public land thing?

lol no, those are A2L’s…R290 is A3, which is gonna come with even stricter restrictions (the A2L rated shaft requirement is going away for the 2027 IBC btw, which knows if/when it’ll go away in NYC).

In Romania I think the home
improvement store sends somebody out to install them for you, the way they’d install a fridge or stove for you here (well…not a gas stove in NYC anymore now that City Council is forcing you to have a master plumber license for that!!). Hanging on high-rise facades.

The new units are so quiet it’s insane

I don’t think most people would actually DIY it, but I think it would open the door to handymen and people in other trades doing it, and lower costs even when longtime HVAC techs do it.

Interesting that they market it as DIY. This is why codes need to get more chill about outdoor unit placement in cities and suburbs – so you don’t need to run a crazy long lineset through lots of floors and walls to install a unit.

wow

The commission sets private residential parking minimums? Or this is replacing some kind of city-owned lot that’s being redeveloped?