And give them resources and help but at some point, the balance tips a little bit. So how do you address that eventually . Its very complicated in those cases. If there is no movement on the building and the permits expire we can issue another issue notice of violation and we can send another notices and maybe to the City Attorney. Thats a long process in itself too. Supervisor scott weiner how many complaints a year do you refer to the City Attorneys Office . We only can take it so far. As Code Enforcement division, we will issue the notice of violation, second notice of violation, bring it to sharing, bring it to an order of abatement. At the time of order of abatement, the City Attorney will decide to accept the case. Supervisor scott weiner how many of you plural, dbi how many cases a year . We referred two last year to the City Attorney. Supervisor scott weiner out of how many violations did the department determine, how many of those total . Complaints filed for last year were 20
Because the premises were abandoned by the previous tenant. This is the same property in the bathroom. Supervisor jane kim we dont know what happened to this tenant because they abandoned the unit. The tenant left. We had no information otherwise we would try to get the tenant to working with Sf Mental Health association. He just abandoned the property. Supervisor jane kim i know mha has a limited cohort for cluttering and hoarding. But its not a group that we can unlimitly send to. There is more residented that you encounter with dbi that mh can take. What happens to this group . Second, i wanted to follow up last year through the budget process the board asked for dbi to include a line item for Mental Health component for housing inspectors understanding that housing inspectors deal with many tenants and also Property Owners that deal with severe or just Mental Health issues and they alone are not going to be able to address the housing issues if there are no Mental Health services i
Supervisors, dan lourary, Deputy Director of Inspection Services for complaint process and procedures. Filing a complaint. A compliant is received by telephone, email, referred from another dbi agency, from the board of supervisors office, 311, visits to the counter, department of building inspection, letter of complaint. Building inspection. The evaluation occurs within 72 hours of receiving the complaint. Currently within 48 hours. Site investigation. Building inspector attempts to gain access. Regarding the validity of the complaint. If there is a code violation apparent. If access is not possible, leave notice to request access. If adjacent property where access is granted. The case is closed if violation doesnt exist or continue the case for violation. This is a sample of notice for violation. Request for access. This is a sample of a door hanger we use when we cant gain entry. Results based on investigation, if a violation is verified, a notice of violation is issued. If a violat
Property owners might take notice. When we got the branding award, it gave other Property Owners that might behave in the same way pause. When we filed the lawsuit in the 600 units out there in the bayview area, i can tell you i had three other planned Unit Development file 1 million permits each to do compliance because they thought they were next. For those Property Owners whose unexpected consequences but it was good, we know that when we File Lawsuits other Property Owners take note of that. Lets look at some before and after. This first one is supervisor kims district, a residential guest room before and after. We have an extreme case here. This is when the Property Owner didnt know what was going on. Supervisor scott weiner what street in in district 8 . This was on san jose avenue. Supervisor scott weiner how long did it take . The homeowner abandoned the property. These are ditch difficult cases to deal with. The department is working on a Pilot Program working really well in b
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