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Legislation Details
File #:
Version:
3
111047
Name:
Administrative, Campaign and Governmental
Conduct Codes - Obligations of Landlords and
Small Business Tenants for Disability Access
Improvements
Status:
Type:
Ordinance
Passed
File created:
In control:
7/17/2012
Board of Supervisors
On agenda:
Final action:
9/11/2012
Enactment date:
187-12
Enactment #:
Title:
Ordinance amending the San Francisco Administrative Code by adding Chapter 38, Sections 38.1
through 38.7, and amending San Francisco Campaign and Governmental Conduct Code Section
3.400, all to require commercial landlords leasing properties to small businesses for use as public
accommodations to: 1) bring public restrooms, ground floor entrances to, and exits from, the building
into compliance with applicable state and federal disability access laws or to disclose to tenants that
the property may not currently meet all applicable construction-related accessibility standards,
including standards for public restrooms and ground floor entrances and exits; 2) inform small
business tenants that they may be legally and financially liable for failing to comply with those laws
and offer such tenants copies of the Small Business Commission's access information notice; 3)
include in any new or amended leases a provision addressing the respective obligations of the
landlord and small business tenant to bring the leased premises into compliance with those access
laws; 4) requiring the Small Business Commission, by January 1, 2013, to develop and distribute an
access information notice in multiple languages regarding local, state, and federal disability access
laws that may apply to businesses in San Francisco and to make that notice available for distribution
through various other City departments; and 5) to require the City to give priority to building permit
applications for work to bring space used by small businesses into compliance with those access
laws; and making environmental findings.
Sponsors:
David Chiu, Eric Mar
Attachments:
1. Legislation_Ver1, 2. Leg_Digest_Ver1, 3. Response_PLN_101311, 4. Response_PLN_121911, 5.
Legislation_Ver2, 6. Leg_Digest_Ver2, 7. Comm_Packet_072312, 8. Legislation_Ver3, 9.
Leg_Digest_Ver3, 10. Board_Packet_073112, 11. Board_Packet_090412, 12. Legislation_Final
Action By
Date
Action
Result
Ver.
ASSIGNED UNDER 30 DAY RULE
President
9/27/2011
1
REFERRED TO DEPARTMENT
Clerk of the Board
10/12/2011
1
RESPONSE RECEIVED
Planning Department
10/13/2011
1
RESPONSE RECEIVED
Planning Commission
12/19/2011
1
SUBSTITUTED AND ASSIGNED
President
7/17/2012
2
AMENDED, AN AMENDMENT OF THE
WHOLE BEARING NEW TITLE
Land Use and Economic
Development Committee
7/23/2012
2
RECOMMENDED AS AMENDED
Land Use and Economic
Development Committee
7/23/2012
3
Pass
PASSED, ON FIRST READING
Board of Supervisors
7/31/2012
3
Pass
FINALLY PASSED
Board of Supervisors
9/4/2012
3
Pass
APPROVED
Mayor
9/11/2012
3