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California has a long history of enacting legislation to regulate how local governments and private organizations constructed buildings to enhance their resistance to earthquakes. This was most often done at the behest of science and engineering advocates and in direct response to earthquake events. California’s history of enacting legislation to force building owners to retrofit or replace buildings constructed before those regulations were put into place is also long but has followed a more difficult, perhaps more tortuous path. The history of the State’s efforts provides insights into the origins and the continuing story of SB 1953.
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Alesch, D.J., Arendt, L.A., Petak, W.J. (2012). Origins and History of California Seismic Building Retrofit Regulations. In: Natural Hazard Mitigation Policy. Environmental Hazards. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2235-4_2
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