When the city of Los Angeles rolled out their soft-story retrofit program in 2015, many property owners considered it to be a “senseless hardship”. The majority of the buildings affected by the new city ordinances are soft-story structures with “tuck under” parking. On the list of mandatory retrofits are approximately 150,000 apartment complexes. Most owners …

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