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Originally Posted by mykalberta
Weird, I always thought it was a fire safety issue for the height restriction.
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Me too; I've been told by developers that it is because of how high fire ladders can get. They reach higher than they used to so, various municipalities now allow up to 6.
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Originally Posted by Squiggs96
If they are built with CLTs they can go higher than 6 stories and still be built out of wood. There is a 12 story would building going up near UBC and there are bigger ones in Europe.
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Do you know what the UBC development is called? I'd like to look into this more
BC housing guidelines still show a maximum of 6 stories and 18 meters for wood frame midrise development. The only way I see this being possible, is if these CLT's are not classified as wood frame.