Board of Health Orders Demolitions
By ANNE HOLLIDAY
WESB/WBRR News Director
A code enforcement officer for the City of San Francisco will be getting an order to demolish a property she owns in Bradford.
A house at 152 South Avenue is one of nine properties for which the city Board of Health issued demolition orders Tuesday.
Bradford Code Enforcement Officer George Corignani explained that Barbara Rozniak, along with Lawrence Israel, bought the house on eBay.
She thought she was going to turn it into a bed and breakfast, Corignani said, but didn't realize it was on the high side of South Avenue with no parking.
She was in Bradford a couple of years ago and Corignani told her what she had to do to bring the property up to code, but he hasn't heard from her since.
"The property is deteriorating to the point it needs to come down," Corignani said.
On the other side of the coin, the owner of 144 South Avenue, who lives in Juneau Alaska, recently tried to sell it on eBay, Corignani said.
He said the house has been vacant for "a long time" and has no heat or electricity.
Another house on the list is at 2 East Main Street.
"The house that you see from the road is a shell," Corignani said. "There's nothing in this house. The floors are gone. … The interior part of the walls is gone. The foundation is pretty much gone. You step in the house, you're stepping on dirt."
Another property is 14-16 Pleasant Street.
"It's a danger. It needs to come to down before someone gets hurt," Corignani said.
The other properties on the list are 10 Short Street, 8-10 Thompson Avenue, 19 Thompson Avenue, 44 Willard Avenue and 135 Pleasant Street.
The board of health also agreed to allow Corignani to take a request to the Historical Architectural Review Board concerning 31-37 Mechanic Street.
Bob Cummins owns the building and is willing to tear it down if HARB approves it.
The demolition needs HARB approval because it's in the Downtown Historic District.
"That's one of the ones where you wondered if it would fall in the creek before it was torn down," said Mayor Tom Riel.
WESB/WBRR News Director
A code enforcement officer for the City of San Francisco will be getting an order to demolish a property she owns in Bradford.
A house at 152 South Avenue is one of nine properties for which the city Board of Health issued demolition orders Tuesday.
Bradford Code Enforcement Officer George Corignani explained that Barbara Rozniak, along with Lawrence Israel, bought the house on eBay.
She thought she was going to turn it into a bed and breakfast, Corignani said, but didn't realize it was on the high side of South Avenue with no parking.
She was in Bradford a couple of years ago and Corignani told her what she had to do to bring the property up to code, but he hasn't heard from her since.
"The property is deteriorating to the point it needs to come down," Corignani said.
On the other side of the coin, the owner of 144 South Avenue, who lives in Juneau Alaska, recently tried to sell it on eBay, Corignani said.
He said the house has been vacant for "a long time" and has no heat or electricity.
Another house on the list is at 2 East Main Street.
"The house that you see from the road is a shell," Corignani said. "There's nothing in this house. The floors are gone. … The interior part of the walls is gone. The foundation is pretty much gone. You step in the house, you're stepping on dirt."
Another property is 14-16 Pleasant Street.
"It's a danger. It needs to come to down before someone gets hurt," Corignani said.
The other properties on the list are 10 Short Street, 8-10 Thompson Avenue, 19 Thompson Avenue, 44 Willard Avenue and 135 Pleasant Street.
The board of health also agreed to allow Corignani to take a request to the Historical Architectural Review Board concerning 31-37 Mechanic Street.
Bob Cummins owns the building and is willing to tear it down if HARB approves it.
The demolition needs HARB approval because it's in the Downtown Historic District.
"That's one of the ones where you wondered if it would fall in the creek before it was torn down," said Mayor Tom Riel.
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