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City reports high compliance on soft-story retrofit program, cites housing-preservation benefits
Summary
Officials said the mandatory soft-story retrofit program addressed about 3,400 buildings, protecting roughly 112,000 residents and resulting in an estimated $383 million investment by building owners; the office framed the effort as both seismic safety and affordable housing preservation.
Brian Strong of the Office of Capital Planning and Resilience briefed the Mayor's Disaster Council on the recently completed soft-story mandatory retrofit program. Strong said the program began in 2013, used tiered permit deadlines with two-year work windows, and produced high compliance: roughly 3,400 buildings addressed, about 98% compliance up to tier 3 and approximately 80% compliance for the most recent tier.
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