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Committee approves health-code update to align local enhanced-ventilation rules with state standards
Summary
The committee adopted amendments and forwarded to the full board an ordinance that clarifies enhanced ventilation and positive-pressure requirements for sensitive uses and aligns multiunit residential ventilation requirements with the 2025 California Building Energy Efficiency Standards effective Jan. 1, 2026.
The Land Use and Transportation Committee voted Sept. 8 to forward an ordinance amending Article 38 of the Health Code to the full Board of Supervisors with a positive recommendation after the committee adopted technical amendments presented by the Department of Public Health.
Jen Callewert, Acting Director of Environmental Health at the San Francisco Department of Public Health, said Article 38 — created in 2014 — requires enhanced ventilation for new development and major renovations in air pollution exposure zones when sensitive uses (housing, schools, childcare…
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