process and make the things to reflect the existing permit process and the planning department and dbi is practicing now with finding the permit and gets routed to the planning department. number 4 is also about the permit process and we're going requiring construction to upgrade those thirty days after the permit is issued. this is a current practice for enforcement. the provision is in violation of some code requirements and the city finds out the city requires those corrections to be done within thirty days. it's a shorter period of one hundred and 80 days for new permits we think those unite diesel with life and safety issues the upgrades need to happen faster. the next banish of comments is the exceptions from the planning code. it only comments those units from open space requirements in the existing unit are already meeting the open space requirements of the code, however, many of the existing housing were predated the open space requirements and don't meet the open space requirements that's now the code in the code and we think that that would create a huge you hurdle for those

i was one of the civil grand jury members who worked on the dbi report. with respect to recommendation 1 , dbi has an operating surplus through the end of last year of $58 million. and as you can see from that schedule, it is growing each year ~. so, we feel that this is the right time for this to be addressed and to bring in the outside consultant to do the work. in the october 10th, 2013 hearing, this committee determined there had not been a performance audit of dbi in the last 13 years and recommended the independent budget analyst perform an audit of dbi. we do not believe that has been scheduled. in addition, once the performance audit is scheduled, we would like to see a root cause analysis of why noticeses of violation failed to be closed out. and also we believe this work would be complementary to supervisor wiener's land use committee work. with respect to recommendation 1.2, there were 180 specific recommendations in the business process re-engineering study and many of them are dependent on the implementation of the new acela permit tracking a

this is a question for dbi.ould that be eligible under this ordinance i know i've heard concern you can create analytically unit and it's part of our house not a separate house >> tom department of building inspection. chief building inspector. supervisor wiener i did-you're going to go through someone's house we're concerned about the apartment this ingress is one thing but egress is the more important thing will you be able to get out safely. we find the most problematic is when you have to use the garage when you have to enter and exit our unit in the sunset they have a it is a time entrance where there's a separate alleyway you can get to the back and avoid the garage altogether or in attached neighborhoods you have a side yard it's more the exemption so where i have the norm you have to approach your garage through a trace entrance and it becomes a situation that legalization is not obtainable >> if this elective passes and i understand dbi will go through a process for the e kwivens but when you have union

one way to insure that is it make sure the agencies are doing the work so the dbi and work board are qualified and another thought we have a screening check list form that dbi will provide at the first point of contact to make sure we have clear standards for eligibility both in terms of the building code and in terms of the no fault evictions you outlined in the prescreening form so it's made clear >> so on that subject basically supervisor chiu is in agreement with this process it's just who does it. >> that's correct. and the second area of disagreement is the ethnic recommendation about lowering the offer sized buildings to legalize this but we don't think it's entirely plausible to our legislation so to make the legislation contingent with supervisor wiener's legislation i'm sure you're aware of it applies to new in law unit within the cash flow in denseer parts of the city. i think where our legislation will really be practical and apply to say more single-family homes in small buildings we can allow a building but it's not important to make our legislation consistent with supe

and he refused so in april, is when the first notice of violation was issued from the dbi. from april and so in may we had to evacuate our house and home and we have not had access to our house or home or any of our personal property since may of last year. from april to the first directary hearing on october 24 of last year and that was 7 months they did absolutely nothing. not one single thing to repair any of these problems from the department of health or the dbi, not one thing. and then in november, as was mentioned before, we finally had got a lawyer and we were bringing a legal issue because they made a big deal over us preventing them over this, and so just i am pointing this out again and this did not happen until eight months. and on december 5th is when the second dbi hearing was, which issued the order of abatement and at this point, it had been nine months since the issue was made, and the only attempt that they did for anything was in november, which was a bogus attempt at cleaning, which completely failed, with the department of health and the dbi because the

the gentleman of dbi then retained to get us a copy of the letter and the log.his letter was restricted as it turns out to only the basis of the design for the sack time so the details are when we requested the original back in november and actually before november but november we went through the process of requesting those letters and when he quota to the process we got 96 sheets with no letter of the log entries that was all brand new. and that disconnect which is the request for the appeal. we've learned for the first time the review panel look at the underline design basis that was the first step requires that the only to go through the stage to get final appraisal for the progress. we believe the hearing should be conducted we learned we hadn't been given auto the public records required and there's an implication we never requested the documents that's completely false and council went on line and didn't get the information i'm going to put up on screen the request itself. the gentleman can bring it up. i have copies of this. i'll turn it around. this is

they would, compliant and yes. >> and other examples under the building code we're trying to instruct dbi to go through a process working with experts and issue bulletins how you go about doing that. >> well, thank you superstition and then a couple of other concerned. earlier they said it would be using space that's not currently living space like garage and living spaces we have parking requirements but this is something the neighbors inviting motive not be happy because there's a shortage of parking and now their chasing more parking spaces >> this is a concern that some people have and i want to go over a a a few points. first of all, and i know my clean air act supervisor farrell had trod legislation that allows car garages to be used other than for garages if you walk around neighborhood in san francisco a high percentage of garages are being used for other things than storing cars. frankly, if we're going to use those garages for something other than storing cars i'd rather be the 685-year-old gay guy who got ellis act out of my united. we're letting people store stuff in their gar

last year's civil grand jury report and recommendations the committee agreed with the director that dbi working with gsa, which offered to assist and well managed implementation program and update of the bpr and rather than issuing an rfp for the outside consultant to do this work, once the director has developed his plan and he will brief the commissioner on the details and thanks for the direct for following up on the administration, gsa and implementing immediately the specific policies and procedural changes to insure that any dbi errors are oversight and tied to the 125 incident prevent us again in the future and congratulations to chief, building inspector, for an comments to mctear and ross and the chronicle of this sunday on the five alarm fire that destroyed and nearly completed the apartment building at 4th street and china basin, the fire department is investigating into the cause of this fire and it is still under way, the director has appointed deputy director dan as part of the chair of the working group that will generate effective recommendations on ways to address the f

>> in the meantime supervisor kim do you have a question on this topic. >> that's a question on the dbi and let me see if rosemary. >> i'd like to resolve this. >> members of the board. chief housing inspector a couple of thoughts the first is the prescene of the crime situation is much is can be presented to the department as a hypothetical if the department can give information back and what was mentioned earliest at that particular time any property that requires informed content to the property owner the occupant must give us content before we go in and the potential of the department based on direction from our commission the director and the board of supervisors having a policy that we will not unless we have some reasonable belief there's an imminent hazard we won't gone based on the information at the time of the prescreening convention. this elective go back back from elective 20 years ago what is was the first citywide elective gives a component to work with the department of building inspector to see whether or not there's a solution to the electrical situation. if the proper

look at the partners we have wre we have caltrain's and members the engineering community and also the dbi one of the things we accentuate is the diversity is the key to anything. when i came in here earlier this morning i see the faces that represent san francisco and that's what we're going to be pushing to make sure that development is about everyone else getting their fair share and getting the opportunity to showcase their businesses and their skills and expertise altogether the point of designation is what we're strooifr to. i'm honored to be standing here today and congratulations there will be folks that brought us here and i want to congratulate the team mr. bob beck you have your work cut out for you and ms. tilly i've already scaled the world. thank you >> thank you for the exiled kind words i think bob and i have our marching orders. our next speaker needs no introduction whodunit travel at least in the region this person has been a friend for many years i've horrid him for some time i've had the opportunity to get to know him not only on this partnership but, of course, our st

get on the same map and same promising program and same pass so planning and dbi i want to recognize angus for being the person in charge he is making sure that bill strong is working with us we take advantage of this goal and let's reorganize the tools within our sfog to work n in the same fashion. i have a responded positively by immediately suggesting short-range and admitted and long-range to do. today i've rewarded them by adapting they're short range recommendations i'll highlight one. is to say anything in the pipeline that has any affordable housing attached to it gets attention immediately. it's hard to do without the leadership the city agencies coming do i dough but we're phone number for two reasons one to reflect the implementation of the policy we are going to throw mr. brown and dbi and a public works we are going to lift those are projects up and give them priority attention and the second reason is to suggest that the developers of those projects should hear about immediately. because what it does is have a very dedicated reinclusion monk the developer community in t

by the way, all the trucks were bought by one or more of our dbi firms. many of you are here from the dbi side of the house. thank you very much. this is what economic development looks like a so thank you and paul i don't know if there's a way to keep all the machinery here i think my four yearly and others would be ecstatic to look like this. now without further ado, let me electro a champion our leader at the transportation authority and that is supervisor avalos (clapping) thank you, kelly. >> it's great to be here. i live in a land log district of san francisco the excelsior district we don't see water but we can see the top of bay it's great to see the new city and the bridge and the ramps go up and the equipment that will be doing the work. and it's an amazing site for the tropics. as chair of the transportation authority i want to thank you all for being her and want to thank you for your efforts so far in bringing up in project to fruition we have a ways to go but i'm happy to know we're on target. the construction of the westbound ramp simplifie

residential trying to a go back to the original and many if not half of the illegal units and one mandated by dbi is done by the landlord. >> so does it coincide with the actual number? >> 66 we were really astonished by category. >> ms. wolfe think the clerk was asking. >> we were flab gaited by that and it is explained by the 66 notices on 1040 market and so certainly some of it. >> the preponderance of the increase. >> have you eaten is increase in the number of in law demolition evictions. >> we don't know it doesn't specify just demolition. >> so there's no way to get a sense of that number. >> no, not to that degree. >> actually, my real question, sir because you represent tenants one of the scenarios i was thinking a last night what about a scenario it's been said a lot of our in law tenants are rented to folks who english may not be they're first language but anyway, i know, i know as well the in law units are made up of immigrants. i appreciate there's something in the legislation that prevented a landlord from illegal listing a unit if there's a no fatality eviction obtain their record

the major units that will not be eligible for the life and safety codes as reported by dbi staff are the access requirements of fire codes and the sprinklers in the safety units of 3 unit are more. i also want to acknowledge tom from the building inspectors and my boss from the dbi are here for any questions. the department strongly supports this ordinance and asks the commission to approve that with some modifications. i'll go through all the modifications that were laid out in the report. so the first thing is remodifying we're proposing to modify the screen. as supervisor mentioned if there's no evictions during a certainty period those units will no problem not be eligible for the provision and we're going to move the screening process so property owners know they'll not be eligible it comes later in the process we don't want the applicants to start an application and find out they're not eligible for the application. if we can show that are that was the first thing i'm going to explain 235e together. the intention is to legalize those units, however, some of the provisions make

. >> perhaps staff could work with dbi on a couple of studies where you could have dbi i'm sure they know how much those things cost square footage widest that's not a thousand dollars. square foot of condominiums conversion but even that at 4 hundred square foot it's going to cost $80,000 and i don't know if 2 hundred and reefgs maybe you can work with dbi that at least will provide support or reality to that >> commissioner hillis. >> i believe we're replacing a foundation and at least that's a smart idea to put in another unltd i'm acquit sure i that they are combined. they that's making that easier to put a unit. >> commissioners, if there's nothing further there as motion and second to adaptation a recommendation for to consult with the city attorney. did i hear that >> i don't believe it was all the recommendations of staff. >> only the monitoring was the only part i think - and it was the staff recommendation. >> oh, to check for all parts. that's my understanding. >> correct check with the city attorney open the monitoring portion. >> for the city attorney very good. on that

i understand that the dbi as city attorney harassing have come up with language to address hopefully and protect the aminity of homeowners who don't have hazards and i want to ask the city attorney to reading record what he proposes and thank you for your work and dbi >> deputy city attorney john gibner again. we suggest adding language to the end of section one 06 a point one .3 b titled imminent subsequential hazards. based on information provided by applicant unless the standard a identified. so colleagues, i think that addresses the concerns i've heard from folks so if there are additional questions if this works i'll be happy to support that amendment >> that's definitely stronger language. is there a motion to adapt without objection >> on the rh n d i'll say a couple of things i absolutely ago with the density diversity. we have many parts of city that are being tremendously taxed. and it is the intense it neighborhoods we have so far we have technical in law that are dispersed throughout the city i'm uncomfortable with carving out a set of neighborhoods that being said i'm ok

see many, many cases of tenants that don't have heat and call the building inspection and know that dbi don't care that there is no heat. we need to preserve those units and those unite are being built at 40 thousand units and back when i went supervisor hell one was working on this it was an estimate between with 20 and 25. so we strongly support this. after hearing the testimony i want to stress this doesn't audio any units it simply legalize what's there it's good especially because of the evictions because last year the demolition evicts were up 20 percent. that is what the used for illegal units >> thank you commenting has a question, sir. >> actually, i appreciate you would don't guess evictions are up 20 percent are those in law units. >> i don't know if they're primarily in law unit. which this legislation would in fact cover situation if the landlord wanted to legalize those units so this is not we think - >> how does that legislation cover 1040 market i don't remember that type of zoning. >> i believe it would it didn't make a distinction. >> it will legalize one unit. >> oh,

so issues of change which use which aren't in the per view of dbi we are somewhat responsible for or asked to be responsible for. so i would love to especially like in the eastern neighborhoods when i have industrial buildings that get redeveloped and then change uses to more of offices. there was many conversations of that in our eastern neighborhoods plan so getting on the same page with planning and getting information from them about what they would like us to look for and get them involved with and at what point. its becoming an issue in the eastern part of the city where we were displaying businesses and in some cases affordable housing and any number of other things we're seeing that new now. i'd love to be more conscious of that in our process. so if we can somehow include that in our list of items that would be good and helpful >> commissioner lee. >> i have two points to make. the first one is about the possible topics. i think what's written in our agenda is a good start but i think we need to be a little bit more specific. i think those topics with too general for example

as i'm sure you're aware of the transportation authority is committed to the small business and the dbi firms are a valuable connection in terms of community bansz based economic development. we were very happy to see the golden gate bridge had not only met the goal with a 13.8 participation moreover it's a great team built on a longer relationship. that speaks to the district of the folks at the top. one of our golden gate bridge team builders is owned by clifford bickering it's located here in san francisco and specialize in concrete work and other things. please join me and welcome mr. cliff birch >> (clapping) and. >> thank you, very much. ms. changing. that's an honor and prirj to be here and a great honor metrological up everybody it's time to bring it up. the theme is the importance of connecting the past to the future from the bnl to the willie brown bridge through this outstanding project pardon let me share a number of connections that empire has it will give you a belief view on we're connected to the city of san francisco a certified lbe firm and connected to caltrain's as a

i'm asking planning and dbi to determine the original grade before they even put in any new modified deck. i'm just asking for some compliance and safety. in closing, we're asking to revoke the permit and remove the deck with all its electrical parts, lower the original retaining wall, remove the secondary retaining wall, which in my belief really holds up this oversize deck and just any future deck and landscaping be built, you know, on the original soil grade as determined by dbi and planning. hank you for your consideration. >> do you have any photos from that yard before this work was done? >> this is the only photo i have and -- >> i believe you an one of your -- so there is -- there was no existing deck there? >> there was no existing deck. >> okay. >> yes, no existing deck. and i've been here for five years, my neighbor has lived next door for 45 years and he has said this was never an existing deck. >> shouldn't be a problem. i think we can get historic pictures from planning or building. >> i want to hand out a current site plan because the original one was incorrect as the