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SFGTV Building Inspection Commission 31517 March 19, 2017

Is excused. Our next item is item 2, president s announcements. Good morning everybody and welcome to the big meeting march 15, a couple of days before st. Patricks day which is going to be a long weekend so happy st. Patricks day to everybody as we start the meeting here and congratulate the director on the fabulous green tie here. Hes the only one that actually wore one want all right. I take that back. Commissioner lee as well. Good morning ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the march meeting Building Inspection Commission meeting. Congratulations to commissioner chang yu that retired after years with Public Service with dbi and did pw and awarded proclamations and a dinner in honor my his colleagues and well done. He will be missed and what a great city servant for 30 years. On the andrea ruizesquide on the. Dbi seismic and the commissioner commiss went to the graduation and yet another class grateod february 24 when 65 seniors received graduation certificates of emergency and survival bags and from the director at the Senior Center and the program focuses on seniors and youth in chinatown the western edition bay view and richmond who complete a five week Training Course to ensure to know what exactly to do when the next earthquake hits San Francisco and this is preparation work that everyone in the city needs to do for themselves and families. Special thank it is to the fit fut vendors, cya, self help for the elderly and dbis lite matis that, woes with the vendors to implement these important programs. Thanks to the how longing inspector tim ree woo who got a letter of appreciation for helping tenants in the candlestick haights to get hot water running in the homes. Appropriate were having the conversation. The tenants were grateful the inspector came out two hours and well done and commissioner dennis ye got a thank you letter for a family getting heat in the family that were having problems for a year. They also said he was curacy professional and went above beyond the call of duty and thank you and well done there inspector. Just a reminder to all managers and supervisors and staff send the nominations for this years quarter 1dbi employee of the quarter to William Strom to continue to continue the Recognition Program of staff meeting and exceeding performance expectations. Were accepting nominations now and will announce our quarter one winner at the april meeting. Madam secretary that concludes my president s announcements. Thank you. Thank you. Is there any Public Comment on the president s announcements . Seeing none item 3 general Public Comment. The bic will take comments on items that are not part of this agenda. Good morning commissioners and thank you for providing this Public Comment. My name is wilma parker and a long time artist and a graduate of the Art Institute of chicago and Rhode Island School of design and i came back later on for five years as a trustee and my main concern then was how do you accommodate artists . The term artist housing is misleading. Theyre not pdr or not factory workers and providence has the same problem as we have here and most of the buildings died when the Industrial Revolution fell apart so we have the situation in San Francisco. Its really hard to find artist housing. What comes to mind fntion is the great trfnlg the ghost ship scbeerp all watching the news. This was a tragedy that never needed to happen. We have known for years how the artists live and to me is the great tragedy ever is the constant phrase rich artistic community. Starving Artist Community is more like tin fact the day of the fire people were talking about getting together to party with this rich artistic community. I mean the fact that maybe a couple ten, 12 artists were able to burn themselves to death by running too many extension cords and no stair case and invite the friends, the general public to join the party thats the art cry. If it hasnt been for the sons and daughters of the general public burned alive i dont think we got the attention we had. The ship building we had plenty in San Francisco. Our main industry die whd we defeated japan by knock out all the japanese shipping and retaliated and enjoyed our shipping industry. That building in oakland wasnt occupied since japan signed the surrender. These buildings are all over. We know about them. When theyre inhibited by artists and the joke is artistic aws autistic you mean but when others get involved its a problem. What do you do with the artists . The ghost ship and others like this and owned by the widows and elder women and dont know what is going with the buildings and turn them to criminal or not to predatory building managers and expect artists with no money and have not made sales forever or ever to bring them to code. Its impossible. Were building so much in the city. Homeless housing is easy to imagine. You need a little bed, bathroom and closet. Artistic housing or housing artists and the Cultural Workers is harder and we need to do better because a city without a cultural life and ability to house these people is like a body without a head. Its not going to the last long. Thank you for your time. Thank you ms. Parker. Good to see you. Thank you for making your comments today. Good morning commissioners. My name is john lofton and represent tim shik and one of the condo owners on noriega and here because of the illegal garbage sheds in the area. This matter has been going for four years now. There were sheds that were erected behind the building. Theyre a nuisance, dirty, smelly and attract vermin and in violation of the easements and covenants and restrictions on the building and this department has inspected and issued a notice of violation in 2015. We went through the appeal process, the abatement appeals board upheld the notice of violation, ordered the sheds removed in november 2015. The condo owners tried to meet with the bakery to work things out. Nothing happened and there was a request for rehearing and denyed in march 2016 so its been nearly a year now. The garbage sheds are still there. Were asking the commission and the department to take action have those sheds removed. Theres obviously been a lot invested in this dispute over the years. The departments inspectors, you the commissioners, the condo owners and the bakery owner and we would like to see this brought to a conclusion and send a signal to the public that the commission will enforce its notices of violation. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Is there any additional Public Comment . Okay. Seeing none are we going to do number 4 . Yeah, we will do number four and five . No, lets move four. Lets move five. And lets go to number 7 number 7 if there is no objection from the fellow commissioners . No objection. Item 7, a couple items will be taken out of order today. Discussion on accela permit and project tracking system. Good morning commissioners. My name is sean beautiful scpint project manager working on the project. As you see in the status report we provided we actually have very good news to announce. We worked closely with the vendor and arrived on a statement of work that will basically outline the actions and the plan necessary to implement the accela system and weve reviewed it internally and weve come to alignment and in fact weve reviewed with the dbi Steering Committee which consists of the dbi leadership and they agree with the pran plans and the contents so it looks like were moving forward. At this point now we have a statement and work and add to the amendment and we have to go through the normal kind of contract approval processes involving contracts administration so thats basically where were at right now. The good news we have agreement on content and scope and requirements and importantly the methodology to get it done, and we have a plan for moving forward at this time. If you have any questions let me know. No questions. So we will probably maybe next month get a further update. We will probably have more questions then. Thank you sean for coming out. Next item. Any Public Comment on item 7 . Seeing none item 8 discussion of regarding the department departments procedures and plan review and policies for Tall Buildings and Performance Based applications under administrative bulletin 082 and 083. Good morning. I want to make sure everyone has the updated slide show that staff is going to present this morning and with that with introduction comments to the director and the staff and i want thank the director and staff for what were going to hear this morning in this report. Were pleased to have received your report. The department of Building Inspections Tall Building review process in response to questions that the commission outlined in a letter that we sent to you director december 6 in 2016. This report provides a comprehensive look at the complex process that goes into Plan Development and review, construction and inspections of Tall Buildings and it demonstrates that many experts both with dbi but particularly with reference to design and professionals and inspections all hired by the project sponsor required to ensure that Tall Buildings are constructed to meet the minimum Building Code standards and are safe for occupancy. The commission is appreciative of this work that went into this preparing this report and looks forward to continuing the work with dbi to help them inform the public around these important safety regulations. I would like to note that todays discussion is intended to review the Tall Buildings generally and that we will not be discussing any one building in particular. With that director if you have some comments before we go to the presentation. Good morning. My name is tom and director of building inspection. Thank you president mccarthy and all the commission to give us the opportunity to present and discuss about this Tall Buildings procedure and policy. First of all to define a Tall Building we have a definition in 2008 and then any building over 240 feet. Then we consider as a Tall Building in the definition, and then to remind you we have 200,000 building in town, very little over the 240 feet, only less than 1 , and later on we will give you more detail in the presentation. However, the ability of Construction Material and capability of the design continue [inaudible] in early 2000 we have more proposal to do more Tall Building of this kind and also the Department Took the positive way to improve our procedure and requirement to monitor this building design. In march 2008 we developed two administration bulletins ab082 and 83 address those issues. We believe this is good starting point you know to develop for our department to review the Tall Building in the process and then follow our publication on this administration bulletin and also we get recognition by the university of california Berkeley Pacific Engineering Research center in august 2008. They saying we are foresight and leadership in developing this process procedure. The administrative bulletin has been recently amended by dbi and also modified able to other improvement in our review process, and then also we also written we have confirm aigdz from the president of the association of [inaudible] california and they accept the request to reveal this administrative bulletin to see any improvement in our administrative bulletin in the future and also i would like to take this opportunity to appreciate some of our commission here and also our staff especially [inaudible]. We extensively work on the report and give you more detail how this process, how we feel about the Tall Building and super Tall Building 240 feet or more and i dont understand to spend too many time to talk and have my assistant director give you brief overall the presentation. If you have any questions you can ask us. We can give you further discussion. Good morning. Good morning. Ron tom assistant director of department of building inspection. President mccarthy, fellow commissioners thank you very much for this opportunity to present our very robust process that we have in place for Tall Buildings. Before you get started sorry for interrupting you. I was thinking before you started with the presentation and i dont know if its okay with the commissioners if we hold our questions to the end of the slide show . Obviously if you have a question that needs to be answered no problem and then maybe at the end if this is okay with you certainly president mccarthy. Okay. We will hold that to the end then. Thank you so much. All right. Again thank you. Dbi welcomes this opportunity to talk about its work to make San Francisco Tall Buildings safer. We appreciate the Building Inspection Commissions work and oversight on this important topic. We look forward to continuing the collaboration with you other city agencies and the stakeholders with a vested interest in this process. In presentation we will discuss the following items the difference between code proscriptive Structural Design and Performance Base Structural Design and talk about safety including the pier review process. What is the role of professionals and design design inspections . And talk about inspections at dbi. What is the San Francisco Building Code made up of . Its made of three parts. We have the international Building Code. Thats the model code. California adopt its and makes make amendments and becomes the california code and San Francisco also makes amendments and provides the minimum standards and what is the dbi role in this based on the San Francisco Building Code . We regulate design, construction, quality of materials, use and occupancy. What dbi doesnt do is we dont propose plans. We dont make repairs. We dont design or construct buildings. And the code is updated every three years. Its a living document. Types of Structural Design. Under the california Building Code under the San Francisco Building Code we have two types of Structural Design methods. It is either the code proscriptive Structural Design which is the prevailing method or the special case of the Performance Base Structural Design. So whats this about code proscriptive Structural Design in well, we have over 200,000 buildings in San Francisco. 99. 99 of the buildings use the proscriptive design method. What is it . Its like using a recipe. It specifies building requirements including height and size restrictions. When theres a building that is over 240 feet and becomes a Tall Building then we have peer review and we will get into that later. When choosing to submit a performance Structural Design the project sponsor commits to utilizing advance detail computer analysis and designs to develop a building that will have the same performance and code proscriptive Structural Design as a code proscriptive Structural Design and one that meets the minimum requirements or exceeds them as contained in the San Francisco Building Code. Were talking about a very rear number of buildings that have utilized this process. For the past years we have over 3,000 New Buildings. We only have 15 of those as Performance Base design buildings. So were talking about less than. 4 percent. Appearance and Structural Designs. What this slide illustrate is how those Performance Based designs represent a very small sliver of all the New Buildings that we construct in San Francisco for the last 16 years. This slide illustrates the differences and the historical changes that have occurred where we shifted from the old financial districts with the high rises occurred into the south of market area. This has been a dramatic shift. A collaborative approach. Every

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