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City staff brief Board on new mandatory soft‑story retrofit ordinance, timeline and financing options
Summary
San Francisco staff outlined the scope and compliance framework of a new mandatory soft‑story retrofit ordinance affecting pre‑1978 multiunit wood‑frame buildings, described tiered compliance deadlines and outreach plans, and summarized financing options including loan programs and transfer‑tax rebates.
Patrick Otellini, director of the City’s Earthquake Safety Implementation Program, briefed the San Francisco Board of Appeals on May 22 about the new mandatory soft‑story retrofit ordinance and the work his office is doing to implement it. The ordinance targets wood‑frame buildings built before 1978 that have five or more residential units and a ‘‘soft‑story’’ condition on the ground floor (large openings such as storefronts or garage bays). Otellini said the mayor signed the legislation April 18 and it ‘‘becomes operative on June 18.”
Otellini told the board the City plans to mail notices to roughly 6,300 property owners starting…
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