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["Mark E. Deardorff" <MarkD(--nospam--at)DandDEng.com>]

Raise your fee! 

Sorry, but what else can you do? If a building official is that stupid and fearful than you are pretty much screwed from the start.

Mark E. Deardorff, SE
Deardorff & Deardorff, Inc.
Ramona, CA 92065


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ken [mailto:ken(--nospam--at)ffia.net]
> Sent: Monday, January 03, 2000 12:19 PM
> To: seaint(--nospam--at)seaint.org
> Subject: Re: Report on Wood Diaphragm Issues
> 
> 
> Tim McCormick the Building Official at the City of Santa 
> Monica wants a
> Rigidity Analysis (1630.6) and a Story Drift Analysis 
> (1630.10) for a one
> story residence no matter what Seaoc or LA City says.  I used 
> the Simplified
> Design Base Shear Method. A lot of Mr. McCormick's  
> information comes from a
> SEAOC Seminar, Wood Diaphragms and Shear Wall Defections,.authored by
> Douglas Thompson S.E. in which is stated "Past earthquakes 
> have shown that
> lateral forces are distributed by relative rigidities."
> 
> I would appreciate any help and how to handle this situation?
> 
> Ken Wilkinson S.E.
> 
> 
>