Abatement Appeals Board orders Warfield Hotel to add public bathrooms after tenant testimony

San Francisco — The Abatement Appeals Board voted unanimously on Nov. 21, 2012, to require the owner of the Warfield Hotel (Taylor & Turk/Taylor Street area) to apply for building permits within 30 days and to begin and complete work within three months to meet minimum public-bathroom standards in the San Francisco housing code.

Rosemary Bosque of the Housing Division told the board the 1906-era hotel has 63 guest rooms — 38 designated residential and 25 tourist — and that Chapter 5 of the San Francisco housing code (the Hotel Conversion Ordinance and related retroactive provisions) requires a minimum number of public bathing and sanitary facilities per floor. Bosque summarized the code schedule and told the board it requires at least two bathing/sanitary fixtures on floors with 2–20 rooms in order to protect health and sanitation. She said a notice of violation was issued in…