Here. Commissioner konstin . Here. Commissioner lee . Here. Commissioner gilman. Here. Commissioner walker . Here. Commissioner clinch is excused along with our newly appointed commissioner warshell. We have a quorum and the next item is president s announcements. Good morning, everybody, and we have a pretty full calendar, thank you for all attending here nor the wednesday september 21, 2016 building inspection commission. With that, i would like to open this commission today in honor of rose pack who passed away last week and obviously as somebody thats been involved in the building world, rose has been a force of nature in this community, in the San Francisco community in particular in her own community for many, many years, so obviously we were saddened at her loss and the city has lost a great ambassador and community leader, so with that, ieding like to honor her today and i know everybody feels the same, so thank you for that. Theres been a few changes here in our commission, we have a new commissioner, commissioner melgar has gone to the Planning Commission and she is starting there pretty soon, i dont know if shes already sworn in, she has been sworn in, so we wish her well, were going to miss her and were going to miss her common sense and her expertise particularly nr the operations of the city because for many, many years, she has worked closely there, we all wish her good luck and well done on her new appointmentabilities we have a new commissioner, mr. Warshell, i havent met him yet, but i believe hes on vacation and will be at the next big commission, so were looking forward to meeting that commissioner, so welcome aboard there. With regard to that, i have a prepared statement and its particularly in regards to whats been all over the news here in regards to the 301 mission high rise, so ive prepared a statement here that i would like the read into the record, recently, we the department and myself as president of the commission have been taking many questions and i feel many concerns about the seismic safety of some of Downtown High rises, in the past waoe, mayor lee has been convening Relevant Department heads and Commission President s to proactively reconfirm the safety of the Downtown High rises, he has directed the city m insadministrator and [inaudible] to spearhead this work convening and also to convene outside experts as needed for an independent and transparent and undais reconfirmation of the safety of our highrises, the mayor has directed us to reconfirm the safety, not just 301 mission but all highrises in the area and the projects also in the pipeline. We wanted to reconfirm that our existing building codes administered bulletins and independent expert review process ensures safe highrises, the last week, the mayor struktd dbi and the office of resilience and recovery to immediately amend the 30 year earthquake safety Implementation Plan to expedite the safety of new and existing highrise buildings, hes also requested a dbi immediately review failure mitigation measures for buildings in geotechnical hazardous areas. Dbi welcomed the mayors direction and urgency as the protection of the highrises is called in question for the residents. The mayor wants to fear, not facts to drive this conversation, so i look forward to the director working with you and along with the commission to follow through these requests, if you wanted to add any particular comments to that, youre more than welcome to do it. Yeah, good morning, commission, our department is going to work with outside experts trying to make sure whatever we can do to improve you know, to ensure all the safety of the highrise building in the area. Okay, alright, we look forward to working, we have a long road to go there. One final note, i would like to welcome annie, she is new, she is our madam secretarys new assistant there and welcome to the team and i look forward to working with you, thats annie down there waving her hands, introduce yourself to everybody afterwards, that concludes my president s announcements, thank you, for this morning. Okay, thank you, is there any Public Comment on the president s announcement . Seeing none, item 3, general Public Comment. The bic will take Public Comment on matters within the commissions jurisdiction na are not part of this agenda. Good morning, commissioners, ill try to be brief, im here for another item but during Public Comment, i wanted to suggest something that would be a good idea to refer to the Code Advisory Committee. Our most important document at least in my mind and ive been doing this for 37 years is the csc, the certification of final dmaoetion, its the birth certificate, since youve been incredibly long time since thats been looked at the, Code Advisory Committee should look that the and bring it up to todays building environment and ill give you an example. Were about to do 5 thousand soft story retrofits. They get a cfc for seismic. Do we really want to be doing a seismic retrofit that will give a cfc that will also establish the legal number of units . They do both, if thats the intent, thats fine, but im a little concerned that a cfc for seismic may not want to have the number of units because thats not the intent of the work, and were going to have problems just like we did with the parapet program where they got cfcs, the [inaudible] that created cfcs for the seismic and if you look at that cfc, theyre a powerful document, they created strange number of units so its just a suggestion to send to the Code Advisory Committee. We have to look at how we allow people to dig in this city, i have my own opinions, but i think the Code Advisory Committee would be a great place to take a look at it so we dont continue to have people excavating underneath peoples property. I get calls all the time, so i see the other side without the Building Department being involved ahead of the issue, and an easy suggestion is we have structural notice, you want to build a deck, the neighbors get a notice, it would be easy to amend the code to say, you want to dig underneath the neighbors property were going to give you that neighbor that same notice, very easy to do, but the whole totality of that needs to be looked at and the Code Advisory Committee would be a great place for that. Thank you. Next speaker, please, thank you. Good morning, commissioners, im [inaudible] from 65 montana, im sorry, 59 montana, and im here to thank whoever have something to do with uncovering our windows, now we have fresh air coming in. I aoep hoping our health is going to get better. Talking about digging, our property at 59 montana has been going through a lot of excavation from 55 montana, and now its sinking, it has sunk one inch in the bathroom where all this excavation had happened. We have images that you can see if you put the projector on. There it is. Its a deep thrush crack that has surfaced from our foundation and to the side of this is where the adjacent building, 55 montana is. Now, we hired a Structural Engineer who came to see the property and said this is the fresh crack, and theres some Structural Integrity that has gone down with the bedroom that has sunk in one inch and thats a huge structural concern. This is a retaining wall that were also asking to be in place, this was finalized from an inspector who came to see the site. Now, things arent finalized here, theres still things that need to be completed. This is a retaining wall thats needed so again on the same note from the previous speaker that came up here, this is a huge concern. This was an illegally built structure that encroached our popout. Now, when we came in front of the discretionary review, they mandated that our neighbors take this building down, and after a year, 16 months or so, they finally did but the work is not done, so we dont know how it was finalized, fire treated fly wood is still existent, no siding has been done, we need a retaining wall from this. This crack that is present needs to be fixed and it is quite deep, it keeps going, our Structural Engineer dug and the crack kept going down, so work is not yet done and were asking if another inspector can come out and see this and report what is currently happening and whats onsite to this day. Do you have anything else . Wed like an end to this accidenter its affecting our health and our pocket because we are paying a lot of money to get engineers and get some help, thank you. If we can put yes, so you can see here this is what encroached our property this was the illegally built structure and you can see how it hugs our popout which is the White Building here, this was demolished and in the demolition or construction this, this undermined our construction, why it hasnt been taken care of, we dont know and we ask that someone please come check this out. Thank you. Is there any additional Public Comment . My name is kristi yakeem and i live in San Francisco and im here to support the peretus fam whoi fly who spoke in their case for additional attention to be paid to this project. First of all, i want to thank the commission and any members of the dbi who may be here for finally taking down the structure. Its made an enormous difference. I was there two days ago and finally you can breathe. Theres sufficient light and air in the house and now i hope the peretus family will be on the path to improving their health, but i do hope that the dbi staff will follow up with the concerns just raised, i dont think this should be between isabel and her neighbor to address. Shes put an enormous amount of cost into fighting this structure for a long time and it should not be up to her to have to see this last part addressed, these structural issues, there needs to be additional cement work to prevent the damage and the crack needs to be fixed, so those are the two remaining issues and i really hope there will be followup and as soon as possible before the rains come. Thank you. I appreciate your comments, thank you. Good morning, commission, my names mark, i have a few comments that i would like to make, more about a procedural matter, i think there might be an issue thats falling through the cracks and i just want to see that it gets the attention that it deserves, in particular, it relates to an address at 1026 clayton street, two complaint that is are open right now, its complaint number 201408641 and 200345254, the owners of 1026 clayton street were issued a notice of violation back in november of 2014 and it was resulting from a roof deck, a very large roof deck that i had witnessed that was installed without the benefit of the necessary permits. Subsequent to the first notice of violation having aexbacker expired back in 2014, a second notice of violation was issued and that was done on july 3, 2015 and eventually the matter was transfer today the ced, direct doors hearing was eventually scheduled and that was scheduled for september 29th in 2015 and eventually that hearing was heard, the owners requests were denied an order of abatement was issued on december 14, 2015, thats almost a year ago, later that month in december, the owners properly filed an appeal with the abatement appeals board and that was on december 22 of 2015, and since that time, absolutely nothing has happened, theres been no scheduling of any aab hearing, after the second notice of violation was issued back in july, a lawsuit for abatement per se was raised for nuisance, for public nuisance, abatement of private nuisance and for injunctive relief and that was filed on july 9, 2015 and thats been pend ining the superior court for some time now. Trial in that action was supposed to have been brought on september 12th of this year, just a few weeks ago, but because the abatement appeals Board Hearing never occurred yet, that trial had to be rescheduled and i had to go down the superior court and request that a judge reschedule the matter and because this aab hearing hadnt happened yet, i was successfully able to do that and i got a court order reschedule the trial to take place in march of this year. Ive gone down to dbi two separate times already and tried to request this matter be set for an aab hearing and i cant get any definitive answer from anyone. The most theyll tell me is it will be scheduled at sometime within the next few months or two months is the word they use, the problem is now i have a court order that already rescheduled the trial once before, you have almost a year that this aab hearings been outstanding and it hasnt been scheduled yet and i think theres a Public Interest that this be given the attention it deserves. Er thank you, your time is up, i appreciate your comments. Thank you. Thank you. There is no additional Public Comment, or is there . Yes, hello, my name is Joseph Thomas and im a resident at the budget inn national hotel, 1139 Market Street and im wondering if the commission can give me a definitive answer to a question ive had for some time now. Youre familiar with this notice, what i want to know is what the residents are supposed to do when we see this . I mean, were living in this building with this notice that says basically that were not supposed to be in the building. We need the address. 1139 Market Street. In addition to this work thats been disturbing, asbestos for over a year now, weve been without the required number of sanitary facilities meaning toilets, showers and sinks since may 18th. So, im just wondering why we havent been relocated. Theres only maybe 10 permanent residents in this building and in type of work, obviously we shouldnt be there, so and as it relates to that work, i have this well, you cant see it, but about a year ago, well, last summer, there was a permit pulled to replace all of the doors in the building with fire doors. All of them were replaced except the ones on the rooms with the permanent residents. However, the permit is marked completed. So, i just wanted to bring your attention to that. Can you see this . There it is. And that relates back to this notice which was eventually posted after this work had been going on last year for over a month, but during that month, we had also been exposed to lead dust and probably asbestos. I just want it to be on the record. Thank you for your comments. And hopefully i can get somebody to respond to me. Thank you for your comments. Thank you, you can follow up with the department staff. You can follow up at the department. Excuse me . Contact the department of building inspection. One of the staff can talk to you later, okay, thank you. If there are no additional Public Comment, well be on to item 4, commissioners questions and matters, inquiries to staff, at this time, commissioners may make inquiries to staff regarding various documents, policies, practices and procedures which are of interest to the commission. Commissioner walker . Great, thank you so much, i have a couple of issues just as a result of the Public Comment, i would like to get a followup for us maybe at the next meeting. The issues brought up to have the Code Advisory Committee review our process or our forms, maybe that isnt a bad idea, certainly weve experienced a lot of issues around the digging issue and it would probably be a good thing to have some suggestions about how to move forward in a proactive way on that. And the cfc, that is if we havent revised it in many decades, i think its probably time to look and see if we can do it in conjunction with our permitting system upgrades maybe to better reflect that process. I would like an update on 1026 clayton. I always will have issues if things remain dangling out there and we have somehow lost track of them, so if you could update us on the status of that, if there was a directors hearing and we are in limbo around scheduling an aab, we just want to know why i mean, if they didnt do it, if they filed for an aab hearing and we continued it and its linger, i want to know, or if we just allowed them to not file sxit told them they could file it later, theres a deadline for filing appeals, so it seems to have passed. So, that shouldnt be an issue administratively. And i guess i would like an update, i got a brief one on the Market Street hotel. I think that it is under renovation. There has been work, so i just want to have staff respond to that. I think thats it for now. Any further comments . No . Just other than i concur with commissioner walkers ask here, so maybe in the next commission meeting, well get updated. Thank you. Okay, item 4b, future meetings and general das, at this time, the commission may sdpusz take action to set a date of a special meeting and or determine those ie tep that is could be placed on the agenda of the next meeting and other future meetings of the building inspection commission. Our next regular meeting would be on october 19th, i believe. Is there any Public Comment on item 4a and b . Seeing none, item 5, discussion on accela permit and project tracking system. Good morning, director [inaudible], may name is henry artily from the department of technology, work witching the dbi on the accela project restart. You should have been handed an additional sheet to go with yes, thank you, with the material youve received in advance and i wanted to start with this one, is everyone im sorry, im trying to catch up here, go ahead. Er i wanted to i was gaining to start with this one. My apologies. I wanted to make sure you all had cop pis. You can put it on the overhead. Do you have an extra one . Yes. Or i can grab one off the table. Alright, so as i mentioned last time, i wanted to make sure we turn this into reporting out on a timeline and status, so i wanted to make sure that everyone on the commission had a good understanding of what work was under way during this restart effort and this one pager shows the different streams of work