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Committee approves motion to study requiring suppression systems in residential high-rises; assigns LADBS and LAFD to lead
Summary
The Public Safety Committee approved a motion to develop recommendations requiring residential high-rise buildings to install suppression systems. The committee amended the motion to assign the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety and the Fire Department as leads and referred the item to additional committees.
The Public Safety Committee approved a motion directing staff to develop recommendations that would require all residential high-rise buildings in the city to install suppression systems.
Council Member Sotomayor Martinez introduced the motion (sponsored by Martinez, Lee, Hernandez and Padilla) and proposed an amendment to designate the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety and the Los Angeles Fire Department as the leads on policy development and to remove the City Legislative Analyst (CLA) from that lead role. The amendment also asked for reports to include cost estimates for increasing weekly inspections and existing safety-inspection records. The committee approved the motion as amended by a 5-0 vote and referred the item to the Housing and Homelessness and the Planning and Land Use Management committees.
The motion instructs departments to return policy recommendations and related inspection cost estimates within 30 days and to include considerations such as ordinances, rules or zoning updates that would support modern safety standards for tank maintenance and distancing (as included in the motion language).
