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The Great Downzoning

The Great Downzoning

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·November 29, 2025
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userbinator

You dare post this right after https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Fuk_Court_fire happened?

Hell no. Hell fucking no. This is exactly the sort of thing that preventing densification will avoid.

rwmj

Not putting polystyrene foam around the windows would be a more practical thing. The article even says in the first paragraph that fire regulations are important.

vasco

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mikelitoris

Not sure if satire, troll or serious, but I think you are serious, so: yeesh, you can’t distinguish between densification and following fire regulations…

mertd

Did you read or even skim the article? It mentions fire safety codes specifically, violation of which is the very reason that fire happened not because it was a tall building. Do you understand why California wild fires are more lethal as of recently?