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Board splits on Golden Gate/Lyon permits: revokes permit for Lyon front fire escape, 1960 revocation fails
Summary
After extensive testimony from tenants, owners, engineers and planning and building staff, the board failed to secure four votes to revoke the 1960 Golden Gate permit but voted 4–1 to revoke the permit for 800–808 Lyon Street, citing life-safety and legal-easement issues and directing follow-up actions and findings adoption.
The Board of Appeals spent a prolonged hearing on two related appeals over rear decks, easements and a proposed front fire escape for properties at 1960 Golden Gate and 800–808 Lyon Street. Tenants appealed permits that would remove rear decks and replace them with a front fire escape; owners and their counsel argued replacement was necessary for life-safety and cited a superior-court quiet-title judgment extinguishing an easement.
Multiple tenants testified that the rear decks and garden had…
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