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Board denies jurisdiction in dispute over French American School rooftop HVAC; neighbors urged noise review
Summary
The San Francisco Board of Appeals denied a late-jurisdiction request from a neighbor who said rooftop HVAC units at the French American School were installed without proper permits and cause noise impacts, while the school and city inspectors said work was covered by prior building and plumbing permits. The Board voted 3–2 to deny the jurisdiction request and directed possible noise follow-up through enforcement channels.
President Frank Fung and the Board of Appeals on Nov. 18 rejected a neighbor's request to reopen a plumbing-permit appeal tied to rooftop HVAC units at the French American School at 66 Page Street, saying the plumbing permit before the Board did not show a denial of due process.
The petitioning neighbor, Jacob Collins, represented by Kevin Grinkleste, told the Board the air handlers sit "less than 3 and a half feet from the windows of my tenants" and played a recording he said demonstrated ongoing noise problems. "These fumes and the noise go right into my tenants' living room and bedroom," Collins said.
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