Live from the kgotv broadcast center, this is abc news. It is unanimous. Berkeley city Council Passed an urgency ordinance aimed at improving the safety of balconies in the city after last months deadly collapse. Good evening. Im ama daetz. Dan ashley is off. The collapse at an apartment complex killed six students and severely injured seven nearly a month ago. Abc7 News Reporter katie is live at Berkeley City Hall with the late breaking developments. Katie . Ama an attorney representing ashley donahos family says they called for balcony inspections every year. You can see the line of people posed to speak. A series of proposals to improve the safety of balconies from the frequency of inspections and the type of materials used to balcony design. The Council Approved the urgency ordinance and it goes into affect immediately. Local building amendments have to be approved by the state. Council decided to call for inspections every three years. The donaho attorney called for every year. Th
Together, were building a better california. Live from the kgotv broadcast center, this is abc news. It is unanimous. Berkeley city Council Passed an urgency ordinance aimed at improving the safety of balconies in the city after last months deadly collapse. Good evening. Im ama daetz. Dan ashley is off. The collapse at an apartment complex killed six students and severely injured seven nearly a month ago. Abc7 News Reporter katie is live at Berkeley City Hall with the late breaking developments. Katie . Ama an attorney representing ashley donahos family says they called for balcony inspections every year. You can see the line of people posed to speak. A series of proposals to improve the safety of balconies from the frequency of inspections and the type of materials used to balcony design. The Council Approved the urgency ordinance and it goes into affect immediately. Local building amendments have to be approved by the state. Council decided to call for inspections every three years.
Of inspections and the type of materials used to balcony design. The Council Approved the urgency ordinance and it goes into affect immediately. Local building amendments have to b approved by the state. Council decided to call for inspections every three years. The donaho attorney called for every year. There may be other buildings with this same design issue and problem out there. Why do i say that . We know these same contractors have had similar issues with other buildings that were built at the same time in other locations. Building organizations represents also spoke and they would like to form a task force to make sure changes made to the Building Code dont have uninend ited consequences. Unintended consequences. They asked them to pause after looking into the collapse. There were code amendments that make sense for the bay area for berkeleys nd. The city plans to hire certified professionals to do the additional inspection. At this point there is no word on how much it will cos
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