§ 15.27.020. Intent.  


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  • This Chapter is intended to promote public safety and welfare through a program of mandatory seismic evaluation and retrofit of certain residential buildings vulnerable to earthquake damage and collapse. The program is intended to reduce earthquake-related deaths and injuries, improve the durability of Oakland's housing stock, facilitate post-earthquake emergency response, improve community stability, minimize displacement during retrofits and after an earthquake, and reduce the economic impacts of a damaging earthquake.

(Ord. No. 13516, § 2, 1-22-2019)