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Good afternoon. Im laurence kornfield chief building inspector with the city of San Franciscos department of building inspection. And this is one of our monthly Brown Bag Lunch meetings which we do every third thursday and the public is invited to come and sit and join us and share their points of view as well. This is not a technical lecture but sort of a point of view. I ask people to come and share points of view with me. And so for todays discussion about retaining walls and fences, we have a couple people joining us. Pat buscovich, Structural Engineer who is one of the people who has seen...

Good afternoon. Im laurence kornfield chief building inspector with the city of San Franciscos department of building inspection. And this is one of our monthly Brown Bag Lunch meetings which we do every third thursday and the public is invited to come and sit and join us and share their points of view as well. This is not a technical lecture but sort of a point of view. I ask people to come and share points of view with me. And so for todays discussion about retaining walls and fences, we have a couple people joining us. Pat buscovich, Structural Engineer who is one of the people who has seen...

Limited it to 12 feet, the pedestrians and the disabled community, youre not swinging the gate into someone walking down the street. Okay. Were going to ping the case so we can get through our 40 slides. We see that gate. Here is something we see on the street. We see this accordion gate. The Building Code says youre allowed to use other than swinging doors where the occupants are less than ten. No special knowledge or effort required. Can we use one of these things in egress travel, like on the righthand side where you had it may be special knowledge required to operate this. Theoretically, y...

Brown bag lunch meetings which we do every third thursday and the public is invited to come and sit and join us and share their points of view as well. This is not a technical lecture but sort of a point of view. I ask people to come and share points of view with me. And so for todays discussion about retaining walls and fences, we have a couple people joining us. Pat buscovich, Structural Engineer who is one of the people who has seen more failed retaining walls in San Francisco than anybody else. And he owns a few actually. And Jim Mccormick from the mr. Planning department. Hes been here 20...

Here is only other side. This north beach graffiti. [laughter] continuing through graffiti. And the owner of the property is required to maintain graffiti in here. Let me talk about graffiti for a second. I wanted to pass on a few numbers. The mayor sends out department of public works on an Aggressive Campaign against graffiti along with the public department. If you see speaker not understood , dpw28clean. What is that number . It turns out to be after some searching, 2 8253 26. Also San Francisco Police Department has a very aggressive action team going after people doing graffiti. And if y...