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Commission backs ordinance requiring phone jacks and grab bars in SROs, urges time‑limited permit fee relief
Summary
The Building Inspection Commission unanimously recommended a Board ordinance to require working telephone jacks in SRO rooms and grab bars in common bathrooms, and asked the Board to consider a limited fee waiver or reduced permit fee window to encourage rapid compliance; staff will withhold notices of violation for six months after adoption.
The Building Inspection Commission recommended that the Board of Supervisors adopt an ordinance amending the San Francisco Housing Code to require working telephone jacks in SRO tenant rooms and grab bars in common bathrooms.
On behalf of Supervisor Eric Mar, Nick Pagalatos summarized the proposed ordinance and stakeholders' involvement: "It's 2 recommendations. 1 that there be working phone jacks in SRO tenants rooms...The second issue is to put grab bars in common bathrooms." Pagalatos said the ordinance is designed to codify an existing state requirement for phone jacks and to add grab bars to reduce slips and falls among seniors and people…
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