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Abatement Appeals Board stays order for 120 days at 557 Howard Street after finding illegal residential conversions
Summary
The San Francisco Abatement Appeals Board unanimously stayed the order of abatement for 120 days for property at 557 Howard Street, citing an active permit filing and ongoing eviction steps; the board upheld assessment of costs and left the 9x investigative fee jurisdictional question unchanged.
SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco Abatement Appeals Board on April 20 granted a 120-day stay of an order of abatement for the property at 557 Howard Street, where city inspectors found an unlawful conversion of the second floor into multiple residential units.
Alan Davidson, senior housing inspector with the Department of Building Inspection, told the board the department’s records show a commercial two‑story building with an illegally converted second floor that now houses 12 occupants. The department issued a notice of violation on June 3, 2010, and the director reduced the department’s initial valuation of unpermitted work from $93,000 to $20,000, Davidson said.
The board heard testimony from Alex Fong, the housing inspector who conducted the task force inspection, who described exposed wiring, unapproved partition walls and other safety…
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