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Board of Appeals denies challenge to fleet-charging permit at 140 Fourteenth Street
Summary
The Board of Appeals voted 5-0 to deny an appeal of a Department of Building Inspection permit that authorized conversion of a vehicle-storage lot at 140 Fourteenth Street to a fleet electric-vehicle charging site, after finding the permit had been legally issued under existing code and prior permits.
The San Francisco Board of Appeals on Feb. 28 denied an appeal of a Dec. 29, 2023 Department of Building Inspection (DBI) alteration permit that authorized fleet electric-vehicle charging at 140 Fourteenth Street.
Appellant Mark Malouf argued the permit should have required conditional-use approval because the site functions as a private parking lot for autonomous-vehicle fleets and not a vehicle-storage lot. Malouf’s land-use attorney, Peter Ziblatt, said the permit-holder had improperly relied on a ‘‘loophole’’ in the planning code to avoid public scrutiny and urged the board to require a conditional-use permit for…
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