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Building Inspection Commission backs wider slope and landslide review for city projects
Summary
The commission voted to amend the San Francisco Building Code to require heightened soils and slope-stability review for projects within Bloom-report slope areas and state-mapped earthquake-induced landslide zones; the change expands review beyond previously designated neighborhoods and tasks staff with mapping and implementation details.
The San Francisco Building Inspection Commission on Sept. 24 approved an amendment to the building code that expands special soils and slope-stability review beyond two historically designated neighborhoods to include areas identified in the Bloom report and state-mapped earthquake-induced landslide zones.
Lawrence Kornfield, Acting Manager of Permit Services, told commissioners the change responds to concerns raised by the Code Advisory Committee and Supervisor Aaron Peskin’s office that the city’s earlier approach — which…
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