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Council adopts measures to identify and address inactive construction sites, instructs follow-up report
Summary
Council approved recommendations to identify potentially inactive construction sites (reporting threshold described as six months without a required inspection) and instructed departments to return with implementation details; members sought limits to avoid adding costs for legitimate projects.
The City Council adopted a package of measures designed to give the Department of Building and Safety (DBS) tools to identify and address inactive construction sites that are creating safety and nuisance problems, and it asked for a follow-up report with clarifications and recommended definitions.
Councilmember Hernández introduced the item as a response to multiple neighborhood complaints about fire, crime and blight at inactive construction sites. Yoven Mayra, identified in the meeting as the director of community and governmental relations for DBS, described the department’s plan to treat a site as “potentially inactive” if there has been no…
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