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Recommendations for Fire Sprinkler Systems in Residential High-Rise Buildings Forwarded to City Council

  • When: 2025/04/02
  • Address: Citywide
  • City: Los Angeles
  • State: CA
  • Category: Zoning Code Modification
  • Subcategory: Limitations
  • Asset Class: Multifamily

The Public Safety and Housing and Homelessness Committees, along with the Planning and Land Use Management (PLUM) Committee, considered a motion to develop recommendations for requiring all residential high-rise buildings in the City of Los Angeles to install fire sprinkler suppression systems. The recommendations also include provisions for maintaining existing tenancies during installation, either on-site or off-site in comparable units, unless tenants voluntarily accept relocation assistance. The PLUM Committee also recommended reporting on the feasibility of exempting buildings equipped with wet or dry standpipe systems. Both committees voted to approve the motion as amended and forwarded the matter to the City Council for its consideration. This is a committee recommendation, not a final City Council decision.

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