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Building Inspection Commission backs two‑year extension for Accessible Business Entrance compliance
Summary
The commission voted unanimously to recommend that the Board of Supervisors extend deadlines in the Accessible Business Entrance program to give property owners more time and DBI more capacity to process permits. Staff cited 11,398 noncompliant addresses and outlined multilingual outreach.
The San Francisco Building Inspection Commission voted unanimously on Sept. 15 to approve a recommendation that would extend compliance deadlines in the Accessible Business Entrance (ABE) program, a local ordinance intended to help property owners bring primary building entries and paths of travel into compliance with state and federal accessibility law.
DBI policy and public affairs director Jeff Buckley told the commission the program was created by a 2016 Board of Supervisors ordinance and “is designed to help our property owners comply with existing state and federal accessibility laws and ultimately to ensure that people with…
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