Design Issues
As the greater Vancouver area has not experienced a substantial earthquake (M ~6.5+) in the past 100 years, it is unclear how durable the Vancouver Special is to Seattle or San Francisco like earthquake land and soil movements. As there is a lot of built in modularity in this kind of housing design, it is assumed that relativity inexpensive earthquake remediation measures could be taken to increase this kind of housing architecture's ability to withstand earth movement without disentagration.
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