Interesting history of building code provisions related to exits in Boston. Look how vague some of those earlier provisions were – talk about “performance-based”! This makes it really tough to understand what used to actually be allowed – you sorta need to just look at what was being built

Pretty sure "satisfactory to said commissioner" refers not just to the means of egress but to the contents of the envelope that he gets.

I love the historic precedents in the report like the Peabody Terrace project bsky.app/profile/sean...

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Featuring a combination of corridor and non-corridor floors, Cambridge's 22-story Peabody Terrace features cross-ventilating units opening directly to exit stairs. The project is over 7 times the max single-stair height allowed by today's IBC www.archdaily.com/486015/ad-cl...