lcpriest

It's 1.35m people globally per year and millions more with life altering injuries.

I think you would really enjoy Doing Good Better by William MacAskill.

Exactly. All it's saying is that you can do whatever you want with your land, as long as you can afford to.

It forces landowners to account for the opportunity costs they impose on society by not utilizing the land optimally, even if (and especially if) those costs change over time.

I don’t think the goal is to increase the apartment capacity of existing multi-stair buildings.

Allowing single stair buildings facilitates multi family dwellings to be built on much smaller lots - even those that currently contain single family homes.

Changing that regulation is the basis for why cities like Paris can’t maintain New York level postulation density without many buildings greater than 6 floors.

I’ve lived and worked in very earthquake prone cities (Wellington, NZ). One of the reasons given to stay inside is that in certain areas of the city, shattered glass falling from sky scrapers would fill the street up to a meter deep along Lambton Quay.

In the article, the architect spoke about how the goal of single stair buildings is to kill that hallway - one stairwell with the doors to each apartment on the stair itself, then narrower lots; similar to how it’s done in Europe.

He points out that the long corridor type of building you are describing is often caused by the need to make a Teo staircase build financially viable.

The parent comment said abolish it.

New Zealand has previously given citizenship to island nation citizens, it is likely that that will continue if things worsen.

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All that is true, but - we also don’t force farmers to internalize the externalities created by their industry.

Southland farmers themselves are saying that if they had to comply with proposed water and soil quality regulations that they wouldn’t be able to exist due to the increased costs involved.

The backlash even from the introduction of a heavy vehicles tax are representative of how much these farmers think they rely on the unpriced benefits they are getting.