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Supervisors advance amendments to ordinance targeting repeat building-code violators; item continued for further drafting
Summary
The committee heard sponsor and DBI presentations on a proposed building‑code change to track and increase scrutiny of parties with repeated serious violations, received extensive public comment raising due‑process and 'guilt by association' concerns, approved substantive amendments and continued the ordinance for redrafting and a March return.
A proposed ordinance to amend San Francisco's building code to identify and more strictly monitor repeat code violators advanced out of the Land Use and Transportation Committee on Feb. 22, with supervisors approving substantive amendments and continuing the item for additional drafting.
Amy Beinart, chief of staff to Supervisor Ronan, told the committee the legislation would create an internal tracking system for significant notices of violation and a public "expanded compliance control" list. She said the measure would trigger closer review—including site inspections, a required licensed contractor named on permits in most cases, and quarterly public reporting—when a…
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