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originally posted by: gariac
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Sprinklers were not required at the time, though Trump could have installed them as a selling feature. But everything Trump is half baked.
Regulations are good. Regulations save lives. Regulations protect citizens from sleazy, unscrupulous developers.
Nearly two decades ago, Trump, then one of the Big Apple’s most prominent real estate moguls, lobbied against Mayor Rudy Giuliani-era legislation that considered whether sprinklers should be installed in all residential buildings after two fatal fires in Brooklyn and Manhattan.
Trump called city officials like famed Queens politician Archie Spigner, whose council committee compiled the bill, to argue that sprinklers were too expensive — at $4 per square foot — to install throughout an entire building, the New York Times reported at the time.
The future president backed off on panning the proposal after it was tweaked to grandfather existing buildings — such as Trump Tower — or structures for which building permits had already been filed, such as the Trump World Tower. Construction on the 72-floor building opposite the United Nations began in 1999.
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New York City is home to plenty of buildings that are decades old, and as a result many of them were not equipped with automatic sprinklers when first built. In addition, there was no code requiring such systems retroactively.
Regulations are good. Regulations save lives. Regulations protect citizens from sleazy, unscrupulous developers.
originally posted by: gariac
www.yahoo.com...
Sprinklers were not required at the time, though Trump could have installed them as a selling feature. But everything Trump is half baked.
Regulations are good. Regulations save lives. Regulations protect citizens from sleazy, unscrupulous developers.
originally posted by: Sillyolme
a reply to: gariac
Apparently not.
The fact he was allowed to grandfather this in is equally on the mayor or govenor. Whomever is in charge of writing those laws. Banks need to start insisting on these upgrades before mortgaging these apartments.
New York is full of old buildings that probably don't meet codes. Rent control gives landlords control of what they provide or dont. I think smoke alarms are the only across the board requirements but you know how that goes. Someone burns some bacon grease the alarm starts going off and the next thing you know the batteries are out never to find their way back in.
The cost of adding sprinklers may be out of reach for some rent controlled apartments.
I don't know if trumps place is old enough to have been covered by any rent control laws or if he even has non commercial rentals. I'm thinking he could have recouped the cost in short order. Now someone is dead.
originally posted by: neo96
a reply to: Lumenari
I have to disagree.
Between their platform of raising taxes,confiscating guns, and impeaching Trump.
They've got the winning hand.
People deserve the government they elect.