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Supervisors call hearings on building electrification and soft-story retrofit safety after Mission Local reporting

3006348 · April 16, 2025
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Summary

Supervisors introduced hearings to evaluate strategies to reduce natural gas use in buildings and to examine construction safety concerns tied to mandatory soft-story seismic retrofits after reporting raised questions about gas lines being encased during retrofit work.

The Board of Supervisors on April 27 heard two hearing requests addressing building-systems safety and climate strategy.

Supervisor Matt Haney introduced a hearing request on city wildfire preparedness and also a resolution supporting creation and funding of a Compassionate Alternative Response Team (CART) for homelessness response. Separately, Supervisor Aaron Peskin and Supervisor Rafael Mandelman joined Supervisor Mar in actions addressing anti-Asian violence and other matters.

Building electrification Supervisor Matt Dorsey [Note: transcript uses the name Mar; item introduced by Supervisor Mar] asked the board to hold a…

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