According to a recent article in Daily Cal, the following are most recent statistics of the Berkeley Soft Story Ordinance compliance
Current number of building subject to the ordinance requirements | 270 |
Building owners not in compliance with notification and warning pasting requirements | 50% |
Building owners not in compliance of filing of the engineering reports | 13% |
Building owners who voluntarily decided to retrofit | 25% |
The phase 2 of the ordinance requiring mandatory seismic upgrade as well as issues of the non-compliance will be discussed on the City Council meeting tonight September 21.
For more info, click on the link below:
http://www.dailycal.org/article/110423/soft_story_policy_update_may_be_ahead