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City releases Tall Building Safety Strategy, urges stronger seismic and recovery plans
Summary
San Francisco officials presented a study cataloguing 156 tall buildings and 16 recommendations to improve seismic performance, recovery planning and insurance transparency; presenters urged cross-agency work and broader stakeholder outreach.
San Francisco’s Office of Resilience and Capital Planning and the Applied Technology Council presented a Tall Building Safety Strategy to the Planning Commission on Jan. 10, 2019, outlining an inventory of the city’s tallest buildings and 16 recommended actions to reduce earthquake risk and speed recovery.
The report, which the city contracted with the Applied Technology Council in February 2017, catalogs 156 buildings the team classified as “tall” (generally above 200 feet) and recommends steps ranging from stricter geotechnical and foundation review for new construction to post‑event recovery planning and an expanded Building Occupancy Resumption Program (BORP).
City resilience director Heather Green told commissioners…
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