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Bayview resident urges DBI to fix enforcement gaps after finding thousands of open notices of violation
Summary
During public comment Robert Davis said DBI failed to collect appropriate fees on a vacant property, pointed to poor interdepartmental coordination on blight, and reported roughly 5,800 open notices of violation citywide, some dating to 1994; he requested an agenda item to review the process.
Robert Davis, a Bayview resident, told the Building Inspection Commission on Nov. 16 that he was concerned about enforcement and coordination on blighted and vacant properties.
Davis said a property at 4801 Third Street had been vacant for about eight years and that, in his view, the city failed to collect a '9 times multiplier' penalty when the owner or representative paid a smaller registration fee — an omission he estimated cost the city roughly $7,000. He asked the commission to review the enforcement handling of that property and similar cases.
Davis also told commissioners that he obtained a spreadsheet of open notices of violation from DBI staff and found approximately 336 open notices in Bayview and nearly 5,800 open notices citywide, with some dating back to 1994. He said this raised questions about DBI's coordination with other departments handling blight (Department of Public Health, Department of Public Works) and asked that this topic be placed on a future agenda for review.
DBI staff and commissioners acknowledged the scale of open cases and discussed better coordination across departments. The commission agreed to follow up and consider making the enforcement process and notification practices a future agenda item.
The commission did not take formal action on specific enforcement outcomes during the meeting; staff did not provide a direct response to Davis's $7,000 estimate in the transcript.
