But Champlain Towers South had been visited regularly by officials in the years before it fell. Champlain Towers South was set to hit that 40-year mark this year. Surfside conducts hundreds of those inspections every year, according to a 5,700-page document posted on the town website listing building inspections going back to the 1990s. Claudio Grande, a retired building official and inspector who worked for multiple South Florida cities, said that building officials' jobs focused on the enforcement of permitting issues instead of structural reviews because that's what the Florida building code requires. Ron DeSantis has stayed noncommittal on potential changes to building rules in the wake of the collapse, saying last week at a press conference that he believed the Champlain Towers building "had problems from the start."

Source: CNN July 14, 2021 10:41 UTC