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These are apartment buildings with carports, garages or retail stores on the ground floor, with flimsy supports that can collapse in the side-to-side shaking of an earthquake.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2024

In 2013, San Francisco ordered retrofits of “soft-story” apartments, which are vulnerable to collapse because their upper floors are held up by flimsy, skinny columns on top of carports or garages.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2024

Beverly Hills passed a retrofit program in December 2018 targeted at soft-story buildings, typically low-rise apartments that can house dozens of people and have a flimsy first floor for carports.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2024

You will also need to check with your homeowners association and read your deed restrictions to ensure that carports are allowed in your specific community.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 4, 2023

In some of the front yards there were aluminum carports, and bright aluminum awnings had been installed on one or two of the buildings.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole