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    Poll: Large majority of LA residents back mandatory earthquake retrofits

    by Rong-Gong Lin II, Los Angeles Times Mar 22, 2023 5 minutes
    Kehl Tonga of Cal-Quake Construction works to reinforce a steel frame during a retrofit of a Hollywood apartment building.

    LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles residents strongly back the city's landmark earthquake retrofit law, a new poll has found, despite decades of conventional wisdom that such a rule would be politically unpopular because of its cost.

    More than 8 in 10 Los Angeles residents support the retrofit law, which passed in 2015 and targets certain vulnerable concrete buildings and apartment buildings with weak first stories, according to a Suffolk University/Los Angeles Times poll conducted March 9–12. Just 9% opposed the law, and 8% were undecided.

    "Oh my God. That's great! Wow ... I'm gratified," seismologist Lucy Jones said of the survey results.

    Jones, a former U.S. Geological Survey scientist, spent a year as science adviser to Mayor Eric Garcetti in 2014 to comprehensively study seismic safety in Los Angeles. Garcetti subsequently the retrofit law, which passed with the unanimous support of the City Council in October 2015, the most retrofit law of its kind nationwide.

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