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Council committee advances tenant fire-safety disclosure and more frequent inspections for large, unsprinklered apartment buildings
Summary
The Public Safety & Health Committee recommended a substitute ordinance that would require landlords to provide tenants a separate disclosure when a building predates sprinkler requirements and would mandate more frequent inspections (every six months) for large or taller unsprinklered multifamily buildings; DNS estimates about 750 buildings fall under the proposal.
The Public Safety & Health Committee advanced an ordinance requiring landlords to give prospective tenants a separate disclosure if a residential building would require sprinklers under current standards, and to submit logs showing disclosures to DNS. The substitute ordinance also requires more frequent life-safety fire inspections (every six months) for certain higher-risk multifamily properties, defined as buildings with 16 or more units or three or more stories.
Sponsor Alderman Bergellis placed the measure in the context of recent fatal fires and said tenants deserve a disclosure comparable to lead-paint notices so they understand the risk inherent in older, unsprinklered buildings. "If a…
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