'I'd Have Done Things Differently': District Inspectors Say DBI Director Patrick O'Riordan Kept Them Off Connected Builders' Sites

San Francisco CA

18 October, 2021

7:46 PM

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By Joe Eskenazi, Mission Local October 17, 2021 The president of the Fire Commission is, to the best of our knowledge, not given deference by firefighters to light buildings ablaze. The police do not allow the president of the Police Commission a complimentary number of free crimes. But for the president of the commission overseeing the Department of Building Inspection — well, life is different. So, when asked how the Department of Building Inspection didn't notice its powerful, longtime former commission president Mel Murphy erecting a five-story, 11-unit structure at 3418 26th St., a literal stone's throw from the major intersection of Mission and 26th — all without the benefit of permitting or inspections — the former building inspector for the district says that, actually, it did. It just didn't want to. To read the full article, click here. Mission Local covers San Francisco from the vantage point of the Mission, a neighborhood with all of the promise and problems of a major city. You can support Mission Local here.