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Commission backs city program to require front‑entrance ADA compliance and create compliance unit
Summary
The commission approved legislation to require primary building entries be made accessible or documented via equivalent facilitation; the ordinance creates an interdepartmental compliance unit and expands the Access Appeals Commission's role to adjudicate technical infeasibility and unreasonable hardship.
The Building Inspection Commission voted unanimously to support legislation that would require places of public accommodation in San Francisco to bring primary entries into alignment with accessibility standards or document an approved equivalent facilitation.
Supervisor Cathy Tang presented the ordinance as a citywide program modeled on the soft‑story retrofit approach. The measure would categorize buildings by entry condition, require a compliance checklist and, for properties…
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