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SF Mayor Proposes Green Building Requirement

SAN FRANCISCO-The ordinance would impose the nation's most stringent "green" building requirements on the construction and renovation of residential and commercial buildings.

By Brian K. Miller | Updated on December 13, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO-Mayor Gavin Newsom today proposed an ordinance that would make San Francisco the city with the most stringent green building requirements in the nation. The ordinance requires developers and renovators of larger residential and commercial buildings to achieve progressively higher levels of LEED certification from the US Green Building Council in the coming years.

“We’ve got to stop playing within the margins and get serious about addressing our reliance on fossil fuels,” said Newsom during an announcement of the ordinance at 555 Mission St., Tishman Speyer’s under-construction office building, which is expected to achieve LEED Silver certification.

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