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San Francisco rolls out ESIP plan, proposes mandatory early‑2013 soft‑story retrofit ordinance
Summary
City earthquake-safety director outlined a 30‑year Earthquake Safety Implementation Program and said legislation to require retrofits for pre‑1978 soft‑story wood‑frame buildings will be introduced in early 2013; staff emphasized a tiered, year‑long evaluation and outreach on financing and tenant protections.
Patrick Otellini, Director of Earthquake Safety for the City and County of San Francisco, told the Building Inspection Commission that the Earthquake Safety Implementation Program will include legislation "in early 2013 for the soft story ordinance." He described the ordinance as mandatory for a defined subset of wood‑frame, type‑V buildings built before 1978 that have five or more residential units and three or more stories.
Otellini said roughly 4,500 buildings meet the initial criteria and estimated that about 2,800–2,900 of those would be classified as soft‑story and thus subject to…
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