Good morning today is thursday, february 4, 2016, this is the regular meeting of department of Building Inspection Commission id like to remind everyone to please turn off all electronics and the first agenda is roll call commissioner president mccarthy commissioner melgar commissioner konstin commissioner clinch commissioner lee commissioner president mccarthy here again commissioner walker. And i think. Did i call everyone. Commissioner gilman i apologize everyone is present and accounted for we quorum and our in relation item is item 3 general Public Comment im sorry president s announcements. Good morning and welcome to thursday, february 4, 2016, the day before st. Patricks day i want to welcome everyone and wish everyone a st. Patricks and early happy st. Patricks day for you who enjoy enjoy the annual event and thank you. The staff for joining camp mather tang in her district and answer peoples questions about permits programs like legalization and soft story retrofitting and ot
Here again commissioner walker. And i think. Did i call everyone. Commissioner gilman i apologize everyone is present and accounted for we quorum and our in relation item is item 3 general Public Comment im sorry president s announcements. Good morning and welcome to thursday, february 4, 2016, the day before st. Patricks day i want to welcome everyone and wish everyone a st. Patricks and early happy st. Patricks day for you who enjoy enjoy the annual event and thank you. The staff for joining camp mather tang in her district and answer peoples questions about permits programs like legalization and soft story retrofitting and other matter the neighborhood dbi welcomed the opportunity to inform homeowners and tenants and customers about the policy procedures and program and supervisor tang conveyed her appreciation the newsletter they tagged tom chu and others as well as William Strong so thank you special thanks to why who is one of the key managers at dbi Central Permit Bureau who was
If so it a good Public Policy change why not exist for fever and but want to include those properties undergoing a complicated case for more than two years the probate from 6 to 12 months. Understood. Okay all right. Seeing no other questions go ahead and take Public Comment everyone has two minutes a 30second soft chimney thirty seconds left seeing no Public Comment on item one Public Comment is closed. Mr. Law. I have staff from dbi an update about this program. Go fantastic lets take the staff. Good afternoon, supervisors bill strong with the building inspection im here with inspection michael who manages our day to day work with this Vacant Building Program we did pass some slide ill be happy to to run through those those briefly if you have questions please ask me. Welcome the floor is yours. So michael why not walk through these. I cant see them. Okay. My name is michael work with the department of building inspection closing statement division i manage this particular project so
I have 2 job titles. Im manager of the tour program as well as i am the historyian of city hall. This building is multifaceted to say the very least its a Municipal Building that operates the city and county of San Francisco. This building was a dream that became a reality of a man by the name of james junior elected mayor of San Francisco in 1912. He didnt have a city hall because it was destroyed in the earth wake of 1906. Construction began in april of 1913. In december 1915, the building was complete. It opened its doors in january 1916. Its a wonderful experience to come to a building built like this. The building is built as a palace. Not for a king or queen. Its built for all people. This building is beautiful art. Those are architecture at the time when city hall was built, San Francisco had an enormous french population. Therefore building a palace in the art tradition is not unusual. Jimmie was an incredible individual he knew that San Francisco had to regain its place in the
So michael why not walk through these. I cant see them. Okay. My name is michael work with the department of building inspection closing statement division i manage this particular project so i dont know if everybody has been through this or not there you go sorry about that okay basically the vacate abandoned building ordinance were aware of youre required to register wle whether youre a vacant or partially vacant building an annual Registration Fee within a time and maintenance and security requirements and information from the owner to be posted on the building we have some brief definitions of which are in the Building Code if anyone want to take into account that hopefully, some questions i can answer along the way here a brief map of a basically outlining where most of residential and some commercial properties throughout the city maybe you can see fairly well spread out the southern part of city southern arena large concentrations of the buildings this is a small breakdown of ba