Can your home survive an earthquake without a retrofit? In the last few years, earthquake scientists have been sounding the alarm about the inevitability of a very large earthquake on the San Andreas fault, which is located only 35 miles from downtown Los Angeles. It is a fact that our fair city typically experiences a very large earthquake every 100 years, and we are all [...]
Can You DIY Your Home’s Earthquake Retrofit? Many Los Angeles homeowners already know that the government’s “Earthquake Brace + Bolt” (“EBB”) program provides families in the Greater Los Angeles area with free money grants of $3,000 (and more!) to subsidize the cost of a California earthquake retrofit. Those homeowners who think that they can DIY their retrofit are taking unnecessary risks with the soundness of [...]
The Danger Of Homes Built Prior To The 1950s Many thousands of homeowners in Los Angeles, and indeed, in the entire State of California, live in homes that were built in the 1950s or earlier, and as such, were built on foundations intended to safeguard the home in the event of a natural disaster such as an earthquake or a mudslide. However, while today’s foundations [...]
Virtually all residential and commercial apartment buildings in the City of Los Angeles have balconies and other “Exterior Elevated Elements” (also called “EEE”) that can pose a safety risk if they are not properly maintained. In recent years, the high-profile collapse of poor-condition EEEs, especially a balcony that resulted in multiple injuries and deaths of students during a birthday party, have paid out multi-million dollar [...]
Balcony Inspection and Repair Legal requirements and liability concerns The State of California has rolled out two new mandatory Balcony Inspection Laws, which were passed by the legislature in 2018 and 2019 in response to the deaths of six UC Berkeley students and the injuries of seven others during the 2015 collapse of a balcony the students were standing on during a birthday party. Legislators [...]
What is the California EBB Program? As you may already know, about twice a year, the State of California’s “Earthquake Brace + Bolt” (“EBB”) grant program provides homeowners in the Greater Los Angeles region with completely free money grants of $3,000 (and potentially other supplemental grants) in order to subsidize the cost of seismic retrofitting their homes. Right now, and for a limited time, the [...]
We will get hit by earthquakes, and one of those will be the “Big One” Every century, the greater Los Angeles region experiences a substantial earthquake, and seismic experts are united in the belief that our city is long overdue for a significant seismic event! Our large earthquake will likely originate from the San Andreas fault, located a mere 35 miles away from downtown Los [...]
California Rainy Season Is here! Annually, when family and friends who live in other parts of the country have to deal with cold and snowy conditions, we happy (and warm) Los Angelinos keep an eye on our calendars for the unofficial start of our "Rainy Season," which begins in mid-October and ends toward the end of April. Although our weather remains generally pleasant and sunny [...]
Los Angeles Commercial property owners have been notified by mail by the City of Los Angeles Office of the City Attorney that they have violated the L.A. Municipal Code Section 12.21A1a with respect to their mandatory compliance with the City of Los Angeles Soft Story ordinances.
THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA SOFT STORY RETROFITTING PROGRAM During the 1994 Northridge earthquake, the City of Santa Monica was hit hard, losing about 1,500 apartments, or about 5% of the city’s inventory of apartments. Many of the damaged structures were wood-framed “Soft Story” multi-family residential apartment buildings, with car port parking on their ground floor, and above, apartment units supported by skinny poles which [...]
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