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Board conditions 1973 Broadway permit but upholds permit suspension amid neighbor damage dispute
Summary
The Board of Appeals approved a revision to the alteration permit for 1973 Broadway with conditions — monitoring, engineer/survey reporting, a liaison to the HOA, pre‑start DBI inspection and a requirement that a new contractor be on the permit — but denied the request to release the prior suspension, leaving those suspension restrictions in place while conditions are met.
The San Francisco Board of Appeals split its rulings on two related matters concerning 1973 Broadway on Feb. 5: the board granted a revision to an alteration permit with a package of conditions intended to protect neighboring properties, but denied the appellants’ request to release the prior suspension on related permits.
Appellants, represented by attorney Sarah Hoffman and homeowner Lynn Fisher, argued that repeated unpermitted demolition and excavation at 1973 Broadway produced significant damage to the adjacent 1967 Broadway foundation and interior walls and that planning and building staff improperly ‘legalized’ additional demolition via serial permitting. Experts for the appellants urged recalculation of demolition thresholds and…
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