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SF Passes Green Building Code, San Jose Next

SAN FRANCISCO-The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously approves the nation's greenest building code; the City of San Jose is busy working on a similar ordinance.

By Brian K. Miller | Updated on August 01, 2008

SAN FRANCISCO-The nation’s greenest building code was unanimously approved by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors this week. 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, potentially increasing their development costs by up to 5%.

Mayor Gavin Newsom announced the proposed ordinance in November in front of 555 Mission St., Tishman Speyer’s under-construction office building, for which it hopes to LEED Silver certification. San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed was planning to detail San Jose’s green building ordinance on Thursday in front of TriPoint Business Park, an aging office park for which AMB Property Corp. recently completed a “green” renovation and repositioning. That did not happen, however, because the ordinance is not quite ready to go forward to the full council just yet, a source in the Mayor’s office tells GlobeSt.com. When it is ready, it will lot like San Francisco’s ordinance.

“We have been working with other cities in the region to ensure that there is consistency throughout the Bay Area,” says the source. “Our standards will be very much in line with San Francisco.”

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