HEARD:
A barrier to building affordable, especially multifamily, housing in rural areas … sprinkler systems.
Many wells can’t provide the quantity of water or pressure needed to run the systems.
On steep hills with limited firetruck access, the $7,000 cost per apartment/condo/house make sense. In multifamily units, the cost to get a system that can meet the water and pumping needed, is expensive, making affordability a challenge.
