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Commission backs ordinance to require facade inspections for 15+-story buildings after recent window failures
Summary
The commission recommended approval of Board of Supervisors ordinance file no. 230,373 to require facade inspection reports for buildings 15 stories or taller built after 1998, and urged DBI to commission an engineering study of recent glazing failures to set inspection criteria.
The San Francisco Building Inspection Commission on April 19 voted unanimously to recommend approval of a proposed ordinance (Board of Supervisors file no. 230,373) that would require facade inspection reports for buildings 15 stories or taller constructed after 1998.
Carl Neceta, DBI legislative affairs manager, said the ordinance is intended to respond to window and glazing failures during recent winter storms. Under the proposal, the previous blanket exemption…
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