SAN FRANCISCO-Mayor Gavin Newsom today proposed an ordinancethat would make San Francisco the city with the most stringentgreen building requirements in the nation. The ordinance requiresdevelopers and renovators of larger residential and commercialbuildings to achieve progressively higher levels of LEEDcertification from the US Green Building Council in the comingyears.
"We've got to stop playing within the margins and get seriousabout addressing our reliance on fossil fuels," said Newsom duringan announcement of the ordinance at 555 Mission St., TishmanSpeyer's under-construction office building, which is expected toachieve LEED Silver certification.
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