Jacksonville City Councilman Rory Diamond has introduced a bill that would impose new mandatory building inspections for Jacksonville in the wake of the Surfside building collapse last year that killed 98 people.
, Florida will require statewide recertification of condominiums over three stories tall. Recertification will be required after 30 years, or 25 years if the building is within 3 miles of the coast, and every 10 years thereafter. The Champlain Towers South was 40 years old and was going through the 40-year-recertification process required by Miami-Dade County when the condominium building collapsed in June 2021.
“The important thing is that what happened in Surfside is preventable,” Diamond said. “Had it been properly inspected and properly fixed, a lot of people would be alive. We don’t want to see that happen here in Jacksonville.” There are more than 1.5 million condominium units in Florida operated by nearly 28,000 associations, according to a legislative analysis conducted earlier this year. Of those, more than 912,000 are older than 30 years and are the home to more than 2 million residents.The state law will also require that condominium associations have sufficient reserves to pay for major repairs and conduct a study of the reserves every decade.
The news release from Diamond’s office states that his bill was introduced on Nov. 9 and will be taken up for action by the Neighborhoods and Land Use and Zoning committees. It could be ready for full council approval on Dec. 13.Copyright 2022 by WJXT News4JAX - All rights reserved.
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