The Public Health and Safety Standing Committee convened to review approximately 70 properties on the dangerous buildings list. The session featured testimony from property owners regarding the status of their properties, discussions with Building and Construction (B-Seed) inspectors about required repairs, and legal inquiries regarding property ownership. The committee focused on verifying compliance with safety codes, determining whether properties could be salvaged, and directing owners to appropriate city departments for assistance with repairs, demolition, or ownership clarification.
Good afternoon, everyone. I would like to call to order our public health and safety standing committee for the purposes of our dangerous buildings hearings for today, Monday, October 20th, 2025. May the clerk please call the roll. Councilmember Gabriella Santiago Romero. Present. Councilmember Scott Benson. Councilmember Mary Waters. Member Waters did indicate that she would be absent, so her absence is excused. Clerk has noted. Madam Chair, you have a quorum present. Thank you, Madam Clerk, given a quorum. We'll go right into the hearings for today. For folks that are online or joining us in person, you are here at our dangerous buildings hearings. We will get started shortly after we hear introductions from the administration, followed by our legislative policy division explaining the purposes of these hearings. I'll go over what to expect once we've heard from the administration and from LPD to the administration. And request a deferral or demolition order. This means that you must do the following. One, provide proof of ownership and interest in the property. Two, pay all required inspection fees. Three, secure all openings on your building from trespass and the elements and remove all exterior debris, abandoned vehicles, overgrowth, etc. Four, make or pay arrangements regarding any delinquent city taxes. Five, obtain the necessary permits to bring your building into compliance with all applicable codes. And six, submit uh completed deferral application. Thank you to the administration LPD. Thank you, madam chair. In addition to the important information just shared by the representative of the administration about the nature and potential consequences of these hearings, people should be aware these are legally required. Excuse me. Administrative appeals hearings from previous informal hearings with the Department of Building Safety Engineering and Environment, B seed. These are the legally required hearings for all the buildings on today's dangerous buildings list in order to demolish them or for the owners to oppose demolition. This is the committee's opportunity as required by law to either approve the demolition or reject it to assist the committee in making this determination and to provide due process. Representatives of BC that are here with the files, inspection reports, photos, and other data for these hearings. Thank you. I will now turn it over for BC to introduce themselves, beginning with our not inspector. Mr. Patel. Thank you, Madam Chair. My name is Dilip Portel. I'm the assistant at the property maintenance BC. Simon Lasseter, Dangerous Buildings Clerk. Thank you both for being here. And for the public that are that may be online, we will now begin our hearings. So if you are here for a hearing, please raise your hand now. I do not see any folks here in person. We have a list of around 70 properties on our agenda for today. I will share that usually we have anywhere from 20 to 40 people that call in for these hearings. I try to keep them short and sweet and to the points. So again, these are hearings regarding uh dangerous buildings. And if you are here and you would like to save your property from demolition, we are going to ask you what are your plans. We are going to see whether or not the house can be salvaged or if it's too dangerous and we need to move forward demolition. And if we agree to demolition, we can have that conversation when we get there.