Soft Stories: Delay of the Implementation of San Jose’s Soft Story Retrofit Ordinance
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Soft Stories: Delay of the Implementation of San Jose’s Soft Story Retrofit Ordinance
On March 25, 2025 San Jose’s City Council voted unanimously to delay by a year the implementation of its Soft Story Retrofit Ordinance, originally approved on September 24, 2024. The ordinance, which requires seismic retrofit of certain wood frame multi-story residential buildings, will now begin implementation on April 1, 2026. The delay is in response to uncertainty around a $25 million Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) grant that wou…
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