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Resistant walls and weatherization. It speaks to the disconnect we find there and that comes from the project Design Professionals and percolates down to ending up with something that is maybe a little beyond but, you know, some of them we see a little bit beyond, but again, the universe with 49 hopkins projects, its pretty small. Just want to make that clear. I spoke about the facade, its not difficult to preserve stuff like that. Shoring and bracing. We dont see any reason as inspectors why it cant be preserved and then going back to the code perspective, its better to upgrade the areas of the building not visible right away. I would suggest an element of joint effort. Documented and approved by the Planning Department. Penalties. Two times penalty is based on the valuation of the work performed in access of what was approved. So if the number is 10,000 just for ....
For example and they do an extra 1,000, its two times based on the 1,000. Its limited and thats what the code allows for. We cant go beyond our code. Those are the tools we have. The nine times of course is we hardly see this, but when somebody were to go out there and completely tear down a building and have no permit at all. I dont know if i have ever seen that. Monetary penalties as were saying are typically small based on work valuations. What does add to the penalties is the Code Enforcement fees and orders of abatement, that takes it into thousands of dollars for assessment of Code Enforcement. Referral to the City Attorney for litigation and possible financial penalty, we have evidence of that here. Our unlawful demolition code prohibits the project from proceeding for five years, in consideration of 317 of the ....
Next steps. Typically new permit applications with plans. To look at this from the eyes of an inspector, the inspector realizes theres a disconnect between the architect and the engineer for the project, theres a miss alignment between the plans. The inspector realizes the structural drawings are showing the compliance with code for structurally potentially fire resistant walls and weatherization. It speaks to the disconnect we find there and that comes from the project Design Professionals and percolates down to ending up with something that is maybe a little beyond but, you know, some of them we see a little bit beyond, but again, the universe with 49 hopkins projects, its pretty small. Just want to make that clear. I spoke about the facade, its not difficult to preserve stuff like that. Shoring and bracing. We dont see any reason as inspectors why it cant be preserved and then going back to the code perspective, its bette ....
That. Monetary penalties as were saying are typically small based on work valuations. What does add to the penalties is the Code Enforcement fees and orders of abatement, that takes it into thousands of dollars for assessment of Code Enforcement. Referral to the City Attorney for litigation and possible financial penalty, we have evidence of that here. Our unlawful demolition code prohibits the project from proceeding for five years, in consideration of 317 of the planning code, where theres a bit of a contractor. I think whats important to understand about our code section regarding unlawful demolition, it states when no demolition permit is in place, the unlawful demolition and five years would kick in. But just bear in mind, these jobs have significant permits. They have hopkins had a 650,000 permit. There was demo ....