When the city of Los Angeles created its soft-story retrofit program it was done with the intention to prevent loss of life in the event of an earthquake. Ordinances 183893 and 184081 were passed in 2015 and were crafted to keep soft-story apartment buildings from collapsing due to the shaking caused in a seismic event. …

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