Teagan has covered Toronto, GTA, and Ontario cottage country real estate. Before coming to STOREYS as a staff writer, she was a freelance writer for Toronto Life and Cottage Life.
Ontario's storey limits for buildings containing only one exit stairway are the second most restrictive in the world. Here's the important step Toronto might take to change that.that could make it easier to construct buildings of up to four storeys using only one exit stair, as opposed to the current requirement of two staircases prescribed in the Ontario Building Code .
The incorporation of single exit stairs in buildings up to four storeys has been identified as a possible way to mitigate the City's housing crisis by increasing floor space with the elimination of an extra stairway, and improving living spaces by allowing for items such as more generous room sizes, extra windows, or accessible units.
Only requiring a single staircase is actually not even a new idea in Ontario, since, “in 2022, the Ontario government identified an intention to amend the Building Code to allow for a single means of in four to six storey residential buildings as part of its Housing Supply Action Plan,” according to theOntario’s two-stair requirement has been in use since the first edition of the National Building Code — a code that was developed in 1941 based on US codes that were developed in the early-1900s...
The idea, Speckert stresses, “isn’t to take a typical apartment building and just have a single staircase, It's about a fundamentally different scale of building with a whole bunch of measures that provide the same or better levels of safety and accessibility.” Ultimately, the provincial and federal governments are the only ones who can amend building codes, but Toronto's intention to
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