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Supervisors hear complaints on sidewalk and blight assessments; DPW to continue review
Summary
Property owners disputed Department of Public Works assessments for sidewalk repairs and blight abatement at a June Board of Supervisors hearing; DPW removed six properties from its delinquent blight list and the board continued remaining sidewalk assessment matters to July 27 for further review.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors held a public hearing on sidewalk-repair assessments and blighted-property liens on Tuesday, June 29, 2010, and heard more than a dozen property owners who disputed invoices and the city’s process for placing unpaid repair costs on property tax rolls.
Department of Public Works staff told the board the sidewalk inspection and repair program inspected roughly 50 city blocks between April 2009 and February 2010, issued 2,173 notices, repaired 716 properties and recovered $516,664.63 from about 600 paying property owners. The department said it is submitting 109 properties with outstanding invoices totaling about $114,965 to be placed as assessments on the tax rolls.
Property owners said many repairs resulted from utility work (they cited PG&E repeatedly), prior…
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