The Los Angeles City Council on Friday called on staff to develop new regulations that would require all residential high-rise buildings to install fire sprinkler suppression systems.<\/p>\n
In a 10-0 vote, the City Council instructed various departments to draft such a policy and recommendations to ensure any existing tenancies be maintained throughout an installation process either on-site or off-site in comparable units \u2014 unless tenants voluntarily accept relocation assistance.<\/p>\n
Council members Hugo Soto-Martinez and John Lee, seconded by Eunisses Hernandez and Imelda Padilla, introduced the motion in December 2024.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe core mission of the city of Los Angeles is to ensure a safe living environment for all of its residents,\u201d the motion reads. \u201cThroughout the years the city has adopted policies to help strengthen building and fire codes that ensure when a tragic event happens that risk is minimized for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n
City officials reported 53 residential high-rise buildings in Los Angeles that do not have sprinkler systems for fire suppression.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is critical that we begin the process of ensuring the safety for the residents of these properties. It must include a process that does not require any tenant to be permanently displaced out of their unit and any passed through costs needs to be calculated in a way that minimizes the impact on the current occupant,\u201d the motion reads.<\/p>\n
Such work has been mandated before through the Non-ductile Concrete Retrofit program and Sprinkler Retrofit program of commercial high-rise buildings, prompted by the First Interstate Bank Building fire in 1988.<\/p>\n
Council members said the city can look to implement requirements that were made in those programs.<\/p>\n
City Council members Adrin Nazarian, Traci Park, Curren Price, Nithya Raman and Hugo Soto-Martinez were absent during the vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles City Council on Friday called on staff to develop new regulations that would require all…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":275767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,13252,5337,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-275766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-los-angeles-city-council","13":"tag-losangeles","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115312881050400613","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}