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Board of Appeals revokes permit for 80740 Fourth Avenue, finding unauthorized dwelling unit
Summary
The San Francisco Board of Appeals granted an appeal and revoked a May 2023 building permit for 80740 Fourth Avenue after planners concluded the ground-floor space meets the code definition of an unauthorized dwelling unit and that the permit application contained incomplete or misleading information.
The San Francisco Board of Appeals voted 4–0 on July 26, 2023, to grant an appeal asking the board to revoke a May 12, 2023 building permit for 80740 Fourth Avenue, concluding that the ground-floor space functions as an unauthorized dwelling unit and that critical facts were omitted from the permit application.
Planning Department Deputy Zoning Administrator Tina Tam told the board the ground-floor space meets the physical definition of a UDU (independent access, separate cooking and bathing facilities, and separation from the upstairs unit) and that new evidence showed a resident, Shu Shen Tan, continued to live there…
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