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City unveils tall-building seismic-safety strategy with 16 recommendations after Millennium Tower scrutiny
Summary
A multi-agency tall-building safety strategy — the first of its kind nationally — maps 156 buildings over 240 feet, proposes short-, mid- and long-term actions (foundations guidance, welded-moment-frame inspection, BORP expansion and downtown recovery planning) and recommends administrative bulletins and code changes to improve post-quake inspections and resilience.
Supervisor Peskin introduced a broad, multi-department tall-building safety strategy — developed with an Applied Technology Council (ATC) team and the Office of Resilience — after concerns raised by the Millennium Tower settlement. The team released 16 recommendations grouped into short-, mid- and long-term actions and published a tall-building inventory (buildings above 240 feet; 156 entries) on the city data portal.
Key near-term recommendations include issuing…
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