{"id":310430,"date":"2026-10-20T09:30:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T09:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/310430\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T09:30:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T09:30:33","slug":"city-of-erie-officials-discuss-new-building-safety-requirements-following-mass-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/310430\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Erie officials discuss new building safety requirements following mass shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:WJET Erie;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"WJET Erie\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/aol_wjet_erie_articles_147.png\"\/><\/a>Updated Mon, October 19, 2026 at 8:02 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/608e4e1b-d7dd-4104-b4e8-36dfedaf0513.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Erie\u2019s mayor met with her team to discuss new safety requirements that the city is going to explore for property owners and tenants moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>After the <a data-ylk=\"elmt:article-inline-link;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/timeline-of-erie-perry-street-mass-shooting\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Perry Street mass shooting that occurred on Friday, October 9<\/a>, the city&#8217;s Bureau of Building Standards and Safety came up with five main takeaways from their meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Those points include: requiring inspections for all rental properties and for any property deemed uninhabitable before the notice can be removed, and providing police with a list of those properties.<\/p>\n<p>Other actions include having all inspectors go through mandated child abuse reporter training and creating a process for house tenants so they&#8217;re not put out on the street when a property has been deemed uninhabitable.<\/p>\n<p>According to the city, these actions will require ordinance changes and working with external partners.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<a data-ylk=\"elmt:article-inline-link;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated Mon, October 19, 2026 at 8:02 PM UTC On Monday, Erie\u2019s mayor met with her team to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-310430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}