dbi staff? >> is there a building inspection staff regarding this report? okay. just one moment okay >> good afternoon commissioner president mccarthy and commissioners thank you for the opportunity to provide additional details regarding the demolition at candle stick stadium on the last meeting on march $18 million you having had various questions happening at the stadium through today is presentation we hope to answer those are questions as well as provide the roll and partner has in this project we are various city departments and partner representatives here with us to help to answer any questions you may have they committed stephanie and jerome marvin willing la of the officer community infrastructure and to the redevelopment ocii has entered into public-private partnering with a private developer for the redevelopment of candle stick stadium and from lamar urban is here. >> in this presentation we'll briefly provide a demonstration of the timeline and staff will walk to our response to a letter from march 1 that captures the questions that we race thank yo

just a quick question to dbi. i don't know director is if that's to you, and is on the tweet avenue property and the question that i asked the fire department about the living situation with two individuals who were living outside -- in front of the liquor store. i mean what do you do with something like that? how could the department even find out about something like that? because it seems that was a special arrangement between the owner of the liquor store and these two individuals. >> that's a very difficult situation supervisor. we had the liquor store -- it's my understanding operating as it regularly does. after it closed the situation happened and it's probably happening as we speak throughout the mission area so one of the things that is so important for us is make sure we're engaging with the community and our outreach contractors so people know they can call us or talk to us so that something like this doesn't happen, and we want to be sensitive that when we're dealing with code enforcement that we're n

can stop the work in event they continue dbi may suspend their work permit both dpw and eject will have additional to the commission their regulatory rules and oversight of candle stick stadium demolition i'd like to invite stephanie is provide the background information on the demolition. >> thank you deputy. >> good morning, commissioners i'm stephanie with the department of public health as the role of the did you want is to approve and review dust control plans during demolition we work with the department of building inspection to review the dust control plan prior to the different control permit by dbi we have limited - i'm sorry so dpw reviews and approves the dust control plan that is submitted or the dust permit in best practices that is best practices once the permit is approved the work is begun and dpw as limited inspection staff inspectors are sent to the site regularly to locate the practices that are looking at visual dust generated by trucking and soil parcels so as a side i have asked the food program because they inspect restaurants in the area to go by and have hazard

. >> a subject property in the alley we got a letter from the appellant versus dbi decided on march 13 the board voted to uphold the vacancy it was properly issued it the antonio to a permit application and address the correction to union street to the alley number 2 as the commissioner mentioned he watched the video hose ready to participate mr. bruno please step forward. >> i did not hear the commission. >> that's; correct correct. >> thank you for reading the material i'm march bruno the appellant i've asked this rehearing be granted for two reasons the liaison for the department of building inspection misinformed in a material way this board when asked about the notice of violations and what he said in response from a question from commissioner vice president honda there's no notice of violation i'm quite sure when asked again by commissioner wilson he said there might be something but it's been remedied he said no there are no novs there are complaints but no any novs in fact, at the time of that hearing there were 2 novs when you look at the history of that board and some of the

the truth but the doctor now we have a clean slate we should capitalize and reinforce the fact that dbisoncerns are addressed quickly i agree we'll have this invocation e.r. next month and the doctor has been communicating with me i want to throw it out there i don't want to get in the middle of that but love to see the monitor i understand a little bit about this this is a good step forward in transparency so i can continue to get to my commissioners we're using each other's expertise for the communication, however, that said we're all on notice it's a failure there will be accountability i understand dpw are limited resources but at the same time an organization within the city that are expanded so fast with different policies but not the personnel that's a concern and i'm worried about that a fact there will be failures in that area so if we can go give help to the air quality control they're an an organization with that obviously we have this back next week and the action not quite sure and keep it in the maybe >> with respect to action i hope over the next two weeks you and your peo

lynn was accredited and dbi for which she's lived for seven years the dbi instructed her to remove the illegal kitchen 5 years later mr. choi received to doogs don't worry about at the time he applied for anyone obviously had 15 days to appeal since she was not innovative in the case by the city or mr. choi she received the notification a month later which she was served with a demolition that requires a copy of the permit audio tape it at this point the appeal time was passed this is unfair the dbi has not taken a position on the matter deborah the tenant is here and will be addressing this issue during the course public comment i testified before the litigation committee about this lack of notification i recommended they notify the tenants last year supervisor david chiu passed legislation diversely the ability to legalize illegal unit so this landlord can approach dbi didn't need to demolish that is interesting in box 24 the dissolution permit that asks did this constitute a illegal occupancy i'll august this constitutes a change of ms. lynns occupancy this is 7 minutes already to w

filed that building permit and when the permit is being signed off by planning when it got back to dbi for a final check the person that reviewed the permit the permit was for i'm not really sure that's right my client asked dbi for american people explanation why in san francisco building code or any sort of kinds law out there we'll find something saying that a shared foundation under what is a shared retaining wall only one party has to remove that foundation to put it into their property after my client received the request from dbi he immediately figured out or tried to figured out what we could do to appeal that discussion it turned out that was past the 15 days to appeal the directors order so within 3 days of finding out he needed to have a request for jurisdiction on file that was in late november so that's. >> can i ask a question to our city attorney if a permit is amended does that change the date there were 15 days to file the appeal but instead of appealing the decision my client wanted to do what we could do to get the decision to go away he filed a permit but it didn't

we've got a very how qualities set of data to finish the q and a with the reports the where it says dbi that's the m i s team that has the responsibility for developing the reports the most complex to develop the 60 those are remaining balance of the report we have balance issues that left resources with the dbi the staff has been replaced on site so for about a month they've gained traction so we've got 6 to we're averaging three or four a week this could end up being the long attempt as far as getting the good live, however, everywhere we've recently got fund we're working on secure that shoring up the reporting to bring that timeline in culmination of all those items a series of end to end semilags to one demonstrate across all the decisions between dbi that will accelerate the support we've done unit testing they've tested their system in prior times to show something can interferes from beginning to end and exercise all the function alter incubating item is the final full daylight migration run at the end of april early may we anticipate that the simulation will be utilize to mid m

worried about a notice of violation in october and as soon as i got the notice of violation i went to dbi 8 times gathering the necessary information and trying to figure out you know what to do in february i got the necessary approvals to get the permit i also i haven't paid it because as you can see from the is it correct to the last page appealings it is a financial hardship for me and also i would i guests mayor of the building code i'm claiming governance that's not an excuse i'm a regular person trying to clear my violations i mean i did not know i was doing anything wrong once i got the notice of violation i went to dbi to get the information and here we or so what i'm trying to ask is that for the board to reduce my penalties if times to 2 times i don't feel i should be penalized i'm doing the best i can bottom line i'd like to move forward i'm asking for reduction in penalty thank you. >> i have a couple of questions how long have you owned the property. >> well my apartment and i own the property i'm thinking maybe at least 15 years. >> so and do you live on the property. >> i r

duffy and so for the past few months i know your office supervisor campos office has a meeting with dbi and the fire department to have an understanding of what framework exists currently and it's been confusing for our office to have those we had the fire code and housing code through the presentation i hope he said what buildings are covered for interns and good afternoon. i'm here to talk about the building code requirements and existing buildings the 2 hundred thousand buildings found in the city more than 20 thousands are apartment buildings over 50 year-olds they have monitoring systems some have sprinkler system in common areas they are to have sprinkler throughout the building i'll go over the existing and common - for new buildings built after 2008 they are to be having sprinkler systems they were only four apartment hours for 3 or more stories effect june 1990 now the exist buildings the requirements vary depending on the type of building for existing sro hotels that provide 20 or more guest rooms a superficial system starred in 2002 for existing buildings those were after jun

violations i mean i did not know i was doing anything wrong once i got the notice of violation i went to dbi to get the information and here we or so what i'm trying to ask is that for the board to reduce my penalties if times to 2 times i don't feel i should be penalized i'm doing the best i can bottom line i'd like to move forward i'm asking for reduction in penalty thank you. >> i have a couple of questions how long have you owned the property. >> well my apartment and i own the property i'm thinking maybe at least 15 years. >> so and do you live on the property. >> i recently moved back in late 2012, 2013. >> so when was the work in question done. >> well, part of work was done in i believe it was 2014 and i did minor remodeling of the kitchen and bathroom on the two story and the other work i believe in 2000 and that was done by my parents. >> when you do the work who performed the work for you a contractor friend and contractor. >> and he didn't at this time inform you a permit was needed to do such remodeling to the house. >> well, i don't know i really wasn't involved in 2000 okay. >

you can do this thing to make sure they can do it i feel like dbi can do our thing but this is a bigger again, it is a city problem because you know our local government low love of us feel liquor gee do we have to you know why does dbi have to be the enforceers here everyone else said they can deal with that sorry you don't have enough staff deal with that anyway i feel like a big project the contractors agreed to a lot of things now you have to do the work, yes maybe there's a lot of people watching this project that's what you signed up for this is a big project so you've got to make sure those monitors you can't send in inu unsigned report or partial reports you can't send in - meetings where you don't know where you are this goes to all departments not just dbi all departments in the city are responsible the contractors are responsible we're all responsibly so i think we have to step it up a little bit i i know we can't take action today but i know the community has been waiting a long time for someone to deal with this we can't keep on psa it not someone else i'm very concerned ab

buscovich mentioned he had tried at dbi to get the residential use in the building. i'm not sure when that happened, i believe we met in 2008, i saw the permit that was withdrawn at that time. it didn't look like it had been reviewed by plan check, it looked like it had just been brought in and maybe it was going around for a while but it was certainly withdrawn for some reason. i don't have any evidence of any preapplication meetings during that time. what i do know is after speaking to mr. ma today is that there had been meetings at dbi in mid-december, 2013, regarding the possibility of creating live-work occupancy in this building. the department had asked the building reps, owners, whoever was at the meeting, to apply for a formal pre-application meeting with dbi that process involves, you can involve people from other departments, you can have fire department, mechanical, structural building, it's a good process. that process has not been followed up on. that's what i'm being told, that is still outstanding. there is a path to legalization for live-works in thi

the public utilities commission >> i have questions for dbi please do stick around. >> thank you, david briggs with the puc good afternoon, supervisors i'm happy to give you details on establishing the fire service for a property in san francisco thank you for bringing the slides up so i'm referring to the cost involved that connecting the water main to the property or to the meter roache on the sidewalk outside of the public right-of-way and shown here on the slide is the short story this is the schedule in our rates with the puc has adapted with the present fiscal year and just to point out several nuance to those schedule that are relevant first several maintenance operations for operating a fire sprinkler system within a property those are inspects and various checks that amounts to essentially one thousand dollars a year what have you and the puc charges for the service just to point out and the second is this rate schedule most of the buildings in san francisco that we're talking about are going to fall into the 4 inch diagram or the 6 diagram connection once the property is above

. >> good evening, commissioners joe duffy dbi building permit that is under appeal it's we see those permits quite a bit it is for a covering the wood vinyl siding the elevation not visible to the public the permit was it's a formulate over the current permit it was on the 28 of january issued on the 29 and suspected because of the appeal dbi had received a complaint in 2014 that exceeding scope of permit more than 5 hundred square feet of vinyl siding being instead of the building inspector for the area mr. raphael received the case on the 3rd of december he went out on the eight of december met the complainant on site she was see concerned about the siding that encroached on her property the inspector said they're concerned about the property line intrusion get a survey that is typical for a building inspector to do that there's been no follow-up i asked the building inspector he didn't receive a copy of the survey it appears that the vinyl siding was over the loose siding i've dealt with this type of complaint it is hard to go out to the site we see someone doing politeness to the

. >> the order of - and dbi present it's presentation first then the opponent. >> indemnify staff. >> good morning patrick chief building inspector with the building inspection just to refresh you all i'll go through the presentation and have updates to add property is 1142 gerrero so the permit application 2014112014 pardon me 0611 was issued over the credit with no drawings and no planning review it was described as an administrative permit for the purpose of documenting the use of rear building as a single-family cf c certificate of final completion was issued in 2014 substantially a complaint number 201493251 was foiled on september 5th contending that was issued based on erroneous information like the storage shed was convert to a single-family home unit a notice of violation was issued on september 14th the owners representatives was given several weeks to the dbi archives for a permit to document it conversion of the building a letter issued by dbi on december 19th revoking the erroneously permit permit applications from 2002 and subsequent 2013 permit were signed off 2003 pard

commissioners on that recommendation 207 set up a short-term rental office staffed by planning and dbi and the tax collects commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore no a commissioner richards no. >> commissioner wu no and commissioner president fong that recommendation will be forwarded to by a vote of 4 to 3 by commissioner moore commissioner richards and commissioner wu voting against. >> recommendation 8 make the number of nights a unit can be used as a hosted or non-hosted at one hundred and 20 days further study can have an illegal conversion to full-time use in the mayoral ordinance. >> commissioner antonini. >> based on our study i forget the gentleman's name the - mark he said the break even point is 270 i can go to one hundred 80 that is more realistic we're squeezing the hosted guys down to the lower number but i'll be supportive of a number of one hundred 20. >> here's where i have one concern about not only the fact you have a vacant unit who you want to rent it out short-term and a or long-term there's a discussion i have a unit wit

. >> no, not my intention i went down to dbi any intention was to legalize one you are talking about it is too much to go through i was handed a 20 page document with numerous things i had to do in order to legalize it was too much for me when i called the tax assessor's office what's the ramifications if i converted a unit legally they couldn't answer me because it's a new program i think i did not feel comfortable without firmer answers. >> the second question who is doing this work the same contractor that did that originally. >> i'm hoping to get a contractor that - well price is a consideration i don't know at this point i'm not sure i'm still doing research and i definitely recommend a licensed contractor did second time. >> thank you. >> okay. >> inspector duffey anything else. >> commissioners just a thought may help is the i'm not sure the construction the lady was at whenever the building inspector came in but if so wall permit was actively a legal permit but the stove maybe they added a bathroom i'm trying to say if i was working at the beginning and someone talked to me a

dbi and that's one argument i've heard is that sprirnldz are unnecessary if the city were explorer endorsing the existing code and recollection our sprirnldz are a life-saving to tell. >> supervisor kim we've dedicated the housing code you can only do code enforcement in the code we said the majority of buildings have little fire suppression that is not going to help us get the tiff protection in the older buildings that the newer believes are objecting the other issue the sprinkler ordinances fully sprinkled those in the commercial areas that was 3 hundred and 54 buildings when we looked the orderly apartment buildings of 7 or more unit your looking at 20 thousand buildings so from that stand out with the regulatory framework we'll have to consider how to approach this in a manageable way for the plan checking of a partial system it is will be a burden on the fire department it is something to consider i want to make sure you're aware of those numbers. >> yes. and what i understand this argument to be if the city is endorsing the code i understand the fire supersonic is not part of code if

inform prevent damage to jane property that is part of the whole process that will be monitored by dbi and the same was spoken to in terms of the particle matter and the matter from noise to keep it within 45 decimals that is extremely reasonable the one issue that was brought up i had to study on it the distance if you look at a view from the top you'll notice that is on this 60 percent probably thought rear part or the northern facing part when it is l-shaped that is within the 40 and a half 5 and a half feet of proposed building one hundred and 50 van ness and also what is interesting if you look at this situation to the east of one 50 is the arresting genocide and one hundred van ness those spragz separation are very similar they can't be much different than the 5 and a half feet, of course, s it was not a school but when we talk about the existing separation the separation is probably very similar to the one that exists on those two buildings and unlike that the sponsor is making exceptions to the schools putting in windows they're not required that's a property line situation so

office will pursue this information we'll work with supervisor cohen as well as the fire department and dbi want to recognize as was mentioned we have not 50u79 or updated our code for the vast majority of codes since 1969 this is the time to reexamine the code for upgrades and a and this came up in the 1950s and 60s the fire a fire that we saw in that video would take 15 minutes and today under 3 this topic certainly deserved a conversation it is 86 percent of our housing stock there are a number of complications wee bit we'll did you whether the location and the cost to property owners what we can do to mitigate that costs and versus the how rent buildings did you ultimately the stories i think about are stories mentioned how for in a single unit can take out a whole block and $20,000 a unit didn't sound that much or, of course, our resident we have a fire in an sro hotel they didn't put in the sprinkler and none of the tenants were able to return to their units it was a rent control unit it was right across the street from a park we relocated them to 6th street to other units that had in

the city attorney to expedite a couple of cases of landlords that are non compliant and we work with dbi very closely, and know that they're so many good people on staff trying to do the best job they can, so with they will turn it over to you director and thank you again. >> good afternoon chairman, supervisor mar and supervisor campos and supervisor christensen. my name is tom [inaudible] department of building inspection. it's my honor to give our presentation today. first of all san francisco is a dense populated city. there's lots of fire probably you didn't hear. as the fire chief mentioned there are lot of fires going on and last month especially some major fires occurs. for our department later on i will have my deputy director from inspection to explain how we're going to respond each fire in the city. we have 24 hours inspection -- inspector to respond to any fire, major fire called by the fire department, and also i will have my housing inspection chief rosemary to make a presentation how our housing inspection perform. the inspection, especially regarding routine inspection.

board of appeals on behalf of dbi, wish him all the best. i'll be honest, the two permits under appeal, first maybe they got off on the wrong foot. hopefully we haven't talked about actually what work is being done in the unit so i'll go ahead and read out the permit application number, 20150128220, it's a revision to permit issued in january for layout changes for kitchen and bath remodel. the permit was, it's a form 8 over the current permit on 12th of permit 2015, went to ntic, went to the fifth floor, building plan check, mechanical and issued at central permit on the same day. the permit got suspended on february 23, 2015. the other permit is another revision to a permit, layout changes for kitchen and bathroom remodel. again over the counter on the same day, suspended on february 23rd per the notice of suspension from the board of appeals. i want to address the notices of violation. firstly, on february 25th, 2015, inspector par did go to the property and issue a notice of violation saying that both permits under appeal have been suspe

i wish i had been involved in the fixing of that and not the third floor counter at dbi, when someone pulls a permit under a wrong address, and contractors sometimes do that, it's always better to cancel and refund that permit and then get a new permit. if it's only an over the counter permit for kitchen and bathroom, we now have a permit on 478 union street that doesn't apply to the work being done there. we have another permit that corrects the address, which is fine, but the 748 union street the contractor said it just will expire. well, if that was my property, i don't know if i would want a permit to expire on it if someone pulled it out on the wrong address. so that permit needs to be canceled. so he needs to take care of that as well at dbi, i can advise him on that later, i already spoke to the attorney earlier about that. i wasn't here for the last hearing but that's a clerical thing and sometimes down at dbi there's inconsistency with how do you fix that. some people like to give another permit to reflect the address change and work done there, that this is an easy permit to

office and dbi to administrator the short-term rental program generally, the department supports theaw of short-term rentals and now the elimination implementation short-term rental program has begun we believe that sheriff's should have a structure and many of the proposed all the times add - while seek to protect the public on neighborhoods and the housing stock a proposed amendments increase the city capacity to enforce it by adding resources and data for checks and balances more easily verified, however the department buildings this undermines the rights the following recommendations for the major items in each ordinances individually open those to be voted on and any other amendments 3 you'd like lee to make the first thing remove the distinction between hosted and unhosted the supervisor campos and other and prohibit the units subject to the ellis act from registering in the short-term rental respiratory and allow the city to institute the hosting platform owner for all 3 ordinances allow the private action for nonprofits in the kim action and within one hundred hundred feet fo

or is handicapped i don't see where shows already been this much longer she would have been if the dbi notice was honored they went through the whole process and she with benefit everybody copes saying the permit was issued in error only because the procedural error that met all the criteria i respected through everyone to get it approved everybody submitted plans and fine give us the permit i don't know they say it was issued in error it was issued properly except for the procedural error on the planning department that's all i dr. have to say. >> so your a the truest correct. >> is the cottage legal. >> they don't say that they say the cottage was built without benefit of the permit. >> so your permit to remove the cottage. >> only the kitchen. >> whoever buys the property will use this as a space they could live there whatever they want. >> is there current ais on the property. >> no. >> mr. sanchez. >> scott sanchez planning department following up on commissioner vice president honda's questions or comments we don't have any records f that building is legal any permits to authoriz

. >> dbi. >> hi tom. >> good morning, everyone. supervisor cohen and supervisor wiener and supervisor kim my name is tom director of the department of building inspection is our honor to come in front of you to make a presentation that is more information i know because the fire building code and housing code is so complex i heard you all confused with different what is requirement that's why today, we're going to give you an overview hopefully make it easier to understand it takes 18 years to understand our code but next thing it will be easier for you to understand you hear from fire department you know what is the requirement generally speaking in our building you know department of building inspection our mission is protect life and also our property in san francisco more than 20 thousand buildings majority are old you know we the planning department anything over 50 year-olds are historical we consider those are old buildings how to protect life is important but how to protect we have a different level you heard about we can h

enforcement matters noting no requirement for that cross-examination that was an artifact when it was a dbi procedure so the limited hearing are somewhat inner formal people have time to speak and present they're case and public comment as well requiring or obligating cross-examination there's no legal requirement for it. >> commissioner johnson. >> that was my question who would be cross commenting whom. >> that's a good question basically the parties so if there was someone i mean not entirely clear but they'll baefg the the party the person in violation if there's an interested party they'll have the ability to bring attorneys and . >> thank you. >> frankly it is a contention we don't see the reason for that. >> shall i call the question. >> on recommendation 10 commissioner antonini. >> commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner wu commissioner president fong so moved that recommendation will move forward unanimously. >> recommendation number 11 department is recommend against this is a recommendation do not require the hosting platfor

. >> hello we have a presentation from the dbi welcome. >> thank you supervisor bill strong with the legislation affairs with the building inspection this provides clarification so everyone is clear that dbi in putting together its cost schedule to assist contractors was based on must not data sources i think that there would be something some confusion or thoughts this will help to clarify that's why we're introducing this. >> a that's it is that it. >> that's it. >> very short update colleagues questions or comments all right. moving to public comment any public comment on item one please come forward seeing none public comment is closed at this time is there a motion for this item? motion by supervisor kim and seconded by supervisor wiener unanimously passed by this body with a positive recommendation to the board madam clerk call item 3 >> an ordinance for the planning to monitor the city's housing balance and publish a bio annual report. >> by supervisor kim. >> thank you supervisor cohen and for your consideration of the legislation that legislation is part of housing balance d

. >> joe duffy dbi building permit under paling appeal is for at building is a type 5 frame building according to the characterizations 3 stories an art occupancy that's the what we have on property profile and the people put down as characters for the building the 3 r is off the permit itself was applied for to remove the illegal kitchen and legalize the existing bedroom and comforter to a half by that time bathroom it went through the department of building inspection it was over the current permit on the 21st of january with the building planning mechanic and pc charges issued by the 24th of january and 13u7d on the first of february pending the appeal i looked at the complaints open the 0 complaints no notice of violation or complaint we're aware of i'll be happy to answer any questions. >> mr. duffy in the report in the packet removal i have dwelling unit without permit not subject to section having direct access to the street i don't understand what any of that specific. >> it's city mr. sanchez note that's some of the notes in the back of the permit mr. sanchez can come up and

one year it's inspired now. >> the issue in doing things this way i look at the data that we have at dbi at property all the time and often i feel like obviously this should have gone through the proper channels of planning as it was being rented out to residential unit in our department was appropriate in re resending the cfo that was pit on that based on the erroneous information we're in this situation i'm not going to support over turning the directors decision on that i think that this is appropriate to have planning weigh in when something that bringing this to our attention i'll support holding any action in abeyance awhile there's a permit at planning to add a unit illegal to this property but you know that's just me. >> no duly noted trust me well, your talking common sense that is not like we all disagree with each other i any mother comments by commissioners so we'll have closing comments from which party do you want - >> any rebuttals comments. >> no, i don't of anything more. >> thank you. i'll be very briefly andrew saks for the appellant recent board of supervisors legisla

. >> those were referred to the planning and i asked them to follow up but i'll follow-up with dbi and any additional properties i object to forward those thirty to dbi. >> the residential guidelines were discussions when i first got here so for it to be redone like in the summer. >> we're looking at the fall. >> fall. >> we hope to bring the hearings for the revised hamburger in the fall. >> commissioners, that places you under your your regular calendar and item 4 was pulled off of consent case at 3822, 24th street a conditional use authorization. >> great good afternoon, commissioners with planning staff you have before you a conditional use authorization for a two-story dwem the replacement structure is a ground floor and 5 residential unit workplace the 24th street noah valley mc d the don't guess a certifying and above required demolition arrest the property 10 thousand mixed use building is proposed with no off-street parking secured by bikes on site for residential unit bike spaces are provided for commercial spaces on the sidewalk the proposed building is 45 feet the project w