Dammit I was going to make this exact joke as a reply.

I have bad news for the residents of Baku, Azerbaijan.

In around two years, your streets will echo with the rattle of Away luggage.

In five years, you’ll have a Bluestone Lane and at least one lower-tier Momofuku franchise.

Within a decade, you’ll be setting Airbnbs on fire.

Because @stephenjacobsmith.bsky.social is encouraging me to engage here - I have a City of Yes weeds question. Does the UAP reset VIH zones to their base FARs if you’re building only market rate units? (E.g. would the current 3.45 FAR in R7A VIH zones go to 4?) Seems like the text suggests that…

What is the address? I wonder if they really kept any of the existing floor elements...seems like a big alt, hard to see how it would be economical to retain this stuff.

NICE! Done and done

@willthomas-usa.bsky.social clued me in

As long as you meet the 110% rule (don't add more than 110% of floor area, which kicks the whole building into the current code), the existing building's joists can remain wood. I am finishing a project now with this fact pattern: existing frame building with wood joists, new steel extension.

I am here! (For now, anyway). I just had this conversation today. Typically we see non-combustible *horizontal* extensions on frame buildings, as it's quite impractical to build a non-combustible vertical extension. (Your building is brick, Stephen, for the purpose of this exercise).