At what point do they hand it off to the county then? Do they have their own UC building inspectors? If the county inspects it, they have to get a copy of the plans to do so. Seems weird to duplicate the whole system when it already exists, especially if they are going to build to code anyway…
But then again this is the CA education system. They ARE known for responsible spending rolls eyes
All the county does is review the access roads for emergency vehicles and fire hydrant / standpipe locations. It goes on to say things about utility hookups and that if the local fire department has delegated authority from the state fire marshal then that applies. As far as I know this is a pretty typical arrangement in the US. State and federal agencies are simply not subject to county and city zoning, permitting, inspection, taxation, policing, or much of anything else, with enumerated exceptions.
I don’t know what the state fire marshal is going to say about this from a safety perspective. I’m sure it actually has enough emergency exits to meet fire code. That doesn’t mean it is actually safe, those codes are written with a certain implied scope that this probably exceeds. I’m not sure what the alternatives to having an operable window or exit in every bedroom are, but I’m sure they have an emergency evacuation plan. If it were that simple the architect would not have needed to resign from the approval board. Local zoning ordinances and housing density rules just don’t apply.
I was in the process of editing to add, so I’ll just put it here:
ETA: He continues to slander the architect, at one point calling him an ‘idiot’. Oh, and the sleeping porch1 in his college fraternity means he understands what it’s like to spend a year as a student without a window. “Did your sleeping porch have any windows?” asked the interviewer. “Yes, a few.”
But yeah, I agree that he manages to insult anyone who doesn’t think he’s the greatest thinker on the planet.
1 A sleeping porch is a screened in porch used during the summer months in northern vacation homes to enjoy a cool sleep.
In this context a sleeping porch is a large room filled with bunk beds where most of the residents of a fraternity or sorority sleep. At least in my dad’s fraternity the windows were kept open year round and you used an electric blanket when it got cold.
So a large shared room with open windows is basically the opposite of munger’s tiny, windowless, single occupancy room although it does share the idea that the room is mostly only for sleeping.
I was explaining a larger context for the term, since it’s not necessarily a well-known concept around the world, or even around the U.S. Frats didn’t create the concept, they just used it:
But yes, exactly: a room filled with fresh light and air is the exact opposite of what this idiot thinks is a good idea.
Thanks to a friend who did her doctorate on TB sanitoriums c.1900, I know they were also a common feature of infectious disease hospitals. Build a hospital with lots of ventilation away from any other people, encourage the patients to sleep on the balconies as much as possible, and preferably build it in Australia in the middle of a eucalypt forest.
Also, the Queenslander house design: build the whole thing up on stilts so there’s lots of ventilation under the house, and be able to close off the balconies so you can set up beds out there in summer.
You know, the exact opposite of what this guy is proposing.
He also doesn’t want any space taken up by light wells to provide the minimum required natural light for the windows. See the floorplan in this report:
It is dense, but I would be deeply surprised if it met that standard. Four of the five densest tracts in California are contiguous in the Tenderloin in San Francisco and the most dense tract in Isla Vista doesn’t crack the top 50.