El Monte does not have its own mandatory soft-story retrofit ordinance. Unlike Los Angeles (Ordinance 183893), Santa Monica, San Francisco, and other cities, El Monte has not adopted a city-specific retrofit program. New construction must meet the California Building Code seismic provisions in Title 15.
El Monte sits roughly 1.5 miles from the Whittier Fault and within the seismically active San Gabriel Valley, but the city council has not enacted a local mandatory retrofit program targeting wood-frame soft-story (tuck-under parking) multifamily buildings. By contrast, the City of Los Angeles requires retrofit of pre-1978 wood-frame soft-story buildings within 7 years of order under Ordinance 183893 (LAMC §91.9501 et seq.). In El Monte, the California Building Code as adopted by EMMC Title 15 governs new construction and substantial alteration, requiring seismic design per CBC Chapter 16. Voluntary retrofit projects must obtain a building permit and meet ASCE 41 evaluation standards for the targeted retrofit.
Because no mandatory program exists, there are no automatic citations for non-retrofit. Voluntary retrofit work performed without a building permit is a Title 15 violation subject to administrative citation and stop-work orders.
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