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San Francisco committee advances ordinance to require life‑safety upgrades for negligent landlords
Summary
The Land Use & Transportation Committee voted to refer Supervisor Ronen’s fire life‑safety ordinance to rules after a lengthy public comment period in which tenants and advocates urged stronger enforcement against landlords with repeated fire-code violations and opposed passing upgrade costs to tenants.
Supervisor Hillary Ronen told the committee on Oct. 1 that the ordinance she sponsored would give city agencies stronger tools to protect tenants after multiple destructive fires displaced families in San Francisco. The measure would allow the Department of Building Inspection, in consultation with the Fire Department, to issue a Fire Life Safety Notice & Order when a building owner has been issued two or more notices of violation for fire-safety issues and a hazard persists or recurs. The order could require the owner to install a new sprinkler system, install a new fire-alarm system or upgrade an existing system to current code requirements.
The ordinance also amends the…
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