Sustainability Plans in 2009: Planning For New Requirements (With More On The Way)
5/6/2009 - Andrew J. Junius, 53
San Francisco’s Acting Permit Services Manager and former Chief Building Inspection Officer, Laurence Kornfield, recently announced creation of a “sustainability plan” as one of every building owner and manager’s “must do’s” in 2009. Kornfield is right: whatever the market may bring in 2009, it is surely just the beginning of increased environmental regulation for buildings. While the exact requirements of coming regulations are not clear now, the types of regulations that will follow are increasingly foreseeable, and can be planned for in advance.
Why now?
Energy use and related activities by buildings are the second largest contributor to California’s greenhouse…
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Eastern Neighborhood Plan Passes: FINALLY
5/6/2009 - Andrew J. Junius
Today the Board of Supervisors passed on second reading the Eastern Neighborhood Plan (the “Plan”); it is now official. Barring a veto, this…
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