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> Here's a quick one: every building under 3 stories must have two independent egress mechanisms, for every story taller they must have one additional egress path per story.

In that case they would just have to ban buildings over three stories, no strange egress requirements needed.

That would in turn get tested against state laws.

No doubt there are plenty of anti-density regulations on the books, like cities with minimum lot sizes in the SF Peninsula, but it would be challenging to pass those regulations now in California.




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