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Building Inspection Commission backs ordinance to increase per-unit civil penalties for code violations
Summary
The commission unanimously recommended a Board of Supervisors ordinance that raises civil penalties for planning and building code violations, clarifies per-unit treatment of violations and adds a below-market-rate exception for certain replacement units following unlawful demolition.
The San Francisco Building Inspection Commission on Jan. 18 unanimously recommended approval of a Board of Supervisors ordinance to raise civil penalties for planning and building-code violations and to treat each residential or commercial unit at a single address as a distinct violation. The commission voted to forward the item after staff and public discussion of substantive changes to the proposal.
DBI legislative affairs staff introduced the ordinance and said the building-code language was amended to incorporate a planning-code provision that restricts permits for five years after an unlawful demolition, except where replacement construction provides the same or greater number of residential units and a like-or-higher proportion of residential to…
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