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Committee backs façade inspection expansion after downtown window failures
Summary
The committee voted to send an amended ordinance to the full board that would expand façade inspection reporting to certain post‑1998 high‑rise buildings; members and DBI officials said a contracted WJE study will inform the final inspection rulemaking.
The Land Use and Transportation Committee on May 1 approved forwarding an amended ordinance that would expand San Francisco's façade inspection program to include buildings of 15 stories or more constructed after 1998, following a series of recent window and glazing failures.
Board President Aaron Peskin, the ordinance's sponsor, described March windstorms that preceded multiple window failures in downtown high‑rise and mid‑rise buildings, citing specific addresses the…
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