San Francisco Mandates Seismic Retrofits for Soft Story Buildings

  In 2010, San Francisco instituted a program that would require rental housing owners to seismically retrofit certain soft story buildings.  Because the program is currently voluntary, the improvements are not being made. Therefore, legislation has been introduced to mandate retrofits. The proposed regulations would affect only wood-frame soft-story buildings built before 1978 that are at… Read More

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