Condo collapse spurs calls to require foundation, subsurface building inspections in Florida code

Published July 8, 2021 8:00pm ET



Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Wednesday that he will wait for more forensic study of the Champlain Towers South collapse before responding to calls for an overhaul of Florida’s building inspection laws.

Condominiums in Florida are “kind of a dime a dozen, particularly in southern Florida,” he said after a briefing on Tropical Storm Elsa at the state Emergency Operations Center in Tallahassee, noting Champlain Towers South “had problems from the start.”

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