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# Letter: Keep the building review process to ensure safe, quality housing
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/011307-story-20070113-3/
- Published: 2007-01-13T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T23:47:13.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

THE REVIEW PROCESS SHOULD NOT BE eliminated or eased. The building department review process is designed to ensure a quality construction product. The review process enables the city of Santa Monica’s planning and building department the opportunity to examine before and while a building is under construction. This enables the inspection department to discuss both the merits of the project and also make critical comments when necessary to ensure that the building will be safe for occupancy. We must keep in mind that California is earthquake country, and that each new earthquake shakes, rattles and rolls with increasing intensity. Anyone who lived through the 1994 earthquake, as I did, should understand that the next one will be a doozy. Let us not compromise the safety and quality of these new buildings simply due to the buildings being for the poor folks.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on January 13, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/011307.pdf?ref=smdp.com)