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8 basement additions often against regulations, building inspectors report

Building a bedroom in the basement without an egress window is a serious code violation and a major safety hazard. Many homeowners think they can simply convert their basement into a bedroom by adding ...
MinnPost

The Minnesota building code should loosen up about single-stair buildings

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The Nation

Single-Stair Layouts Are Not Going to Fix the Housing Crisis

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Architectural Record

Exit Strategy: The Case for Single-Stair Egress

American land-use reformers intent on addressing present-day housing shortages have, for the last decade, focused their efforts on amending zoning codes—the very rules that gradually downzoned most ...
Brownstoner

Code Issues? Basement Door and Stairway

I have a one story brick building – residential, 1 family. We have an open stairway to the basement at the bottom of which is a door to the basement. The bottom of the stairway is enclosed. I want to ...