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Board continues appeal on 120 Howard vertical addition after technical dispute over seismic analysis
Summary
The Board of Appeals continued the appeal of a vertical-addition permit at 120 Howard St. for one week (to Oct. 20) after the State Bar raised seismic-safety concerns and engineers for the project and DBI disputed the need for further delay; the board allowed limited five-minute presentations per side.
The San Francisco Board of Appeals on Oct. 13 continued for one week its review of an appeal against a proposed four-story vertical addition atop 120 Howard Street after a technical dispute over seismic calculations and peer review. The State Bar, which filed the appeal, urged further independent review of computer modeling and raised concerns about damping factors and 'short-column' (infill) effects in the design; the project sponsor, Shorenstein Company, and its engineers said a…
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