By Ali Sahabi, Optimum Seismic via AAGLA
“It’s been three years since the City of Los Angeles started sending out orders requiring seismic retrofitting of vulnerable soft story and non-ductile concrete buildings. Soft-Story property owners, upon receipt of these official notices, were required to:
– Submit proof of previous retrofit, or plans to retrofit or demolish (within 2 years)
– Obtain a permit to start construction or demolition (within 3.5 years)
– Complete retrofit construction (within 7 years)
Given these deadlines and the three years that have transpired since the first orders were mailed, what percentage of the city’s vulnerable soft-story buildings have been retrofitted so far? City officials were briefed last month that only 14 percent of soft-story buildings have been retrofitted …READ MORE