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Board upholds revocation of massage‑parlor permit after repeated health violations and SFPD investigation
Summary
The Board of Appeals upheld the Department of Public Health's revocation of a massage establishment permit for 311 Twelfth Avenue, citing repeated unsanitary conditions and evidence from a multi‑agency police investigation; the revocation was supported 5–0.
The San Francisco Board of Appeals voted unanimously on Aug. 21, 2013, to deny an appeal by Nancy Lowe, proprietor of a massage establishment at 311 Twelfth Avenue, and to uphold the Department of Public Health’s revocation of her business permit.
Department of Public Health Inspector Ed Walsh detailed a multi‑year pattern of repeated sanitation violations and noncompliance. Walsh told commissioners the establishment, permitted in February 2007, had been the subject of multiple inspections and repeated re‑inspections in 2013; he said he had returned to abate violations more than a dozen times and that the owner reopened the premises without approval after a…
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