text: Mike
  
  The old city hall was built to whatever seismic standards were available in 1964. Building codes including seismic standards have changed in the last 50 years.
  
  The new building design does incorporate the latest seismic upgrades.  But there are different levels of seismic survivability, the latest design puts the new city hall in the same category as emergency responder structures, i.e. police, fire, hospital.