DBI Update – Concrete Building Screening Program and Permitting Review Time Mid-Year Data

Dear Customers,

Earlier today, just in time for the April 18th anniversary of the 1906 earthquake, the Building Inspection Commission voted unanimously to support legislation establishing the Concrete Building Screening Program and new voluntary earthquake retrofit standards for concrete buildings.

This new program is the culmination of years of research, evaluation and smart thinking by our staff at DBI, our colleagues in the City Administrator’s Office of Resilience and Capital Planning, and dozens of engineers, tenant advocates, and civic leaders who volunteered their time and expertise to help develop the screening program and retrofit standards.

The legislation now returns to the Board of Supervisors for a committee hearing and then a vote by the full board before going to Mayor Lurie for his signature. Over the following six months, DBI will begin outreach to property owners whose concrete buildings have been included in the screening list to let them know their next steps.

For more information about the screening program, please see this press release.

Majority of In-House Projects Continue Meeting their First Review Target Time

DBI’s mid-year performance numbers are in, and we continue to meet our first review time target at least 60% of the time in all In-House Review project categories.

One of the ways we measure our performance is to look at the front end of the process and track whether In-House Review permit applications are being reviewed by the first building (BLDG) station within the targeted timeframe and measure that against our past performance.

Our mid-year data shows that we continue to make gains or hold onto the progress that we’ve made over the past few years:

Click here to view the data table.

The operational changes we made to reduce permit review and issuance times (work that continues under PermitSF) were always meant to produce long-term progress that could be sustained and enhanced over time.

We still have more work to do to speed-up our permit review and issuance times but this data indicates that the operational changes we’ve implemented over the past five years are producing results with staying power.

Thanks for your ongoing support. Be safe out there.