Supes Take Aim At Remaking Dept. Of Building Inspection Oversight Commission

San Francisco CA

15 December, 2021

2:59 PM

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By Joe Eskenazi, Mission Local December 14, 2021 A quartet of supervisors today introduced a charter amendment that could lead to voters fundamentally remaking — or, perhaps more accurately, unmaking — the oversight commission for the scandal-plagued Department of Building Inspection. Today's amendment is sponsored by Supervisor Myrna Melgar — herself a former member of the Building Inspection Commission — as well as Aaron Peskin, Hillary Ronen and Rafael Mandelman (who had a cup of coffee on the BIC himself a decade ago). If their legislation is successful, voters in June 2022 would fundamentally alter who serves on that commission and how they get there. Since its inception under Proposition G in 1994, the Building Inspection Commission has had seats designated for members of the professions regulated by the Department of Building Inspection — among others landlords, architects, engineers and "residential builders." 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.