O’Riordan said that, yes, there is no automated feature in the DBI system that could have alerted him of an unconscionable 907-day gap between the final two recorded inspections on site, or tipped him off to the jarring lack of inspections recorded here. The supervisors were perplexed that there was no automated system that could alert O’Riordan - at the time the city’s chief building inspector and Curran’s direct supervisor - of the lack of recorded progress at 2867 San Bruno. The timeline of when this purportedly occurred is not clear. O’Riordan says he took that information to the City Attorney, but declined to speak further on the matter, which he said was the advice from the City Attorney’s office. O’Riordan said that Curran had earlier told him that he’d been sent to the site by since-ousted DBI boss Tom Hui. This, the interim director later said, “may” require opening walls on-site and “may” lead to forensic testing of the foundation. “We have to work on the assumption those inspections were not performed,” O’Riordan told the supervisors. O’Riordan said today that Curran did not produce that job card, despite being asked to do so many times. Today, interim Department of Building Inspection director Patrick O’Riordan said that Curran told him that he’d actually performed numerous inspections at 2867 San Bruno, but had failed to record them within the department’s permit tracking system, and had instead written them, in pen and ink, on the job card.
And, finally, the certificate of final completion was issued by disgraced former senior inspector Bernie Curran, who is presently facing federal charges related to alleged fraud and bribery. Perhaps even more disturbingly, there is a dearth of recorded inspections on this site by the Department of Building Inspection, meaning it is unclear how much figurative or literal duct tape and bubble-gum was used in a structure housing three times as many residents as it was designed to hold.
A lack of fire protections led to the erection, nearly three years ago, of so-called “temporary” scaffolding serving as a fire escape, a situation described today by Supervisor Aaron Peskin as “a janky duct-tape and bubble-gum solution to a life-safety issue.” Thankfully, it was only words that were incendiary, because this is not a structure where one should play with fire: Twenty extra units were illegally shoehorned into this large, mixed-use building there are 30 apartments here in a building only permitted for 10. There were incendiary words exchanged today in a Board of Supervisors hearing regarding the debacle at 2867 San Bruno Ave.
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