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4. Compliance with ASCE 41 using the BSE-1 Earthquake Hazard Level defined in ASCE 41 <br />and the performance level as shown in Table 404.2.4.2. The design spectral response <br />acceleration parameters Sxs and Sx1 specified in ASCE 41shall not be taken less than 75 percent <br />of the respective design spectral response acceleration parameters SDS and SD1 defined by <br />the California Building Code and its reference standards. <br />TABLE 404.2.4.2 - Please see attachment B <br />PERFORMANCE CRITERIA FOR REDUCED CBC LEVEL SEISMIC FORCES <br />Title 24, California Existing Building Code, Part 10, Section 404.3.1 Referenced Standards is <br />hereby amended to read as follows: <br />Standard Reference <br />Number Title <br />Referenced In Code Section <br />Number <br />ASCE 31-03 Seismic Evaluation of <br />Existing Buildings <br />404.2.4.1, TABLE 404.2.4.1, <br />404.2.4.2, TABLE 404.2.4.2 <br />ASCE 41-06 Seismic Rehabilitation of <br />Existing Buildings <br />404.2.4.1, Including Supplement No. <br />1 TABLE 404.2.4.1, 404.2.4.2, <br />TABLE 404.2.4.2 <br /> <br /> Title 24, California Existing Building Code, Part 10, Section 404.3.1 Lateral force-resisting <br />elements are hereby deleted. <br />7-5-200 CHANGE OF OCCUPANCY: SEISMIC. <br /> Title 24, California Existing Building Code, Part 10, Section 407 is amended as follows. <br />407.1 Conformance. No change shall be made in the use or occupancy of any building <br />unless such building is made to comply with the requirements of the California Building <br />Code for the use or occupancy. Changes in use or occupancy in a building or portion thereof <br />shall be such that the existing building is no less complying with the provisions of this code <br />than the existing building or structure was prior to the change. Subject to the approval of the <br />building official, the use or occupancy of existing buildings shall be permitted to be <br />changed and the building is allowed to be occupied for purposes in other groups without <br />conforming to all of the requirements of this code for those groups, provided the new or <br />proposed use is less hazardous, based on life and fire risk, than the existing use. <br />407.1.1 Change in the character of use. A change in occupancy with no change of <br />occupancy classification shall not be made to any structure that will subject the structure to <br />any special provisions of the applicable California Codes, without approval of the building <br />official. Compliance shall be only as necessary to meet the specific provisions and is not <br />intended to require the entire building be brought into compliance.