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Its steel columns. Thank you goodness. 19 stories and i live across the street in a building that was built i believe in 1920 and i brought my staff here because we want to, as a team, be prepared with our building and the owners who live there. So her question is, how can someone find out what they should be prepared for . The first thing is to see if the there are original plans for their building should they hire someone someone need to verify if you are structural steel frame. Theres a high likelihood theres a plan. If you are a concrete frame, you have a set of concerns. The first thing, ...

Lowest story. You are standing there and someone knocks your knees out and you fall down. Thats what can happen to soft story buildings. I think a lot of us dont pay enough attention to the nonstructural damage. Here we are in this room, nonstructural damage can be to the sealing, so heres a story. In the 1989 earthquake, thats the day the Marriott Hotel opened. It has that little bar at the top. Up at the top of building, it swayed back and forth and the ceiling planes shaved off a sprinkler and it flooded the top floor. Its a big problem. In north ridge, it was a huge problem. There was trem...

Individual lot . One is these lines are very clearly defined as boundaries. They dont actually mean, this is the exact edge. You could be on one side or the other. Its not okay here and not okay 10 feet away. But, on the other hand, we have taken this map, which was published by the state and digitized it so if any portion lies within these zones. If you tell me your address, i can tell you whether you lie it in. Theres a book. 5586205 and the clerk or me will take the book and look it up and say, yes, you lie within a particular zone i am the manager of a large condo minnium project. It was b...

Want to use it . No. Okay. Thank you good evening. Scott sanchez with the Planning Department. I will be brief. I want to confirm again based upon the plan submitted to the board, the project does comply with the planning code. They can building a larger structure at the rear. They have voluntarily decided to reduce the size. They have properly set it back to 4 feet. Its also setback three 3 feet on the west side of the property. It extends into the rear yard the same extent as adjacent to the property to the west. But they are maintaining, whats not a required side yard setback but they are m...

Them. Basically, if your building was built before early 70s. Its likely to have some earthquake resistance and resilience of the cost of construction. It wasnt specifically designed to with with stand and earthquake. Most of the sun stream homes. These are track homes, mostly built to speck homes. Built the way they always built. They have a degree of earthquake resistance. They have a tendency to pound together and the buildings in the middle survive because the earthquake isnt long enough. The individual at the end of the block is like the book at the end of shelf. They fall over and the ne...