Re: Window Failures Hit Pelosi/Harris SF High-Rises With 30-Year Inspection Exemptions

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The NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit has learned, three of the high-rise 
buildings where windows failed this week were among 200 newer structures 
with a 30-year exemption from the city’s façade inspection rules.

Both Salesforce East at 350 Mission Street, and a 15-story building at 
1400 Mission Street had windows fail during Tuesday’s windstorm. 
Salesforce East was completed in 2015 and 1400 Mission in 2016 – that 
means, under city regulations, both qualified for a 30-year inspection 
exemption automatically granted to buildings with permit applications 
dating back to 1998.

The exemption means those newer buildings do not need to perform “initial” 
façade inspections for decades. The deadline for an initial inspection 
would have been the year 2045 for Salesforce East and the year 2046 for 
1400 Mission. However, both buildings now face an emergency 14-day 
inspection deadline following this week’s window failures.   

The problem plagued Millennium Tower, at 301 Mission Street, also reported 
a window failure on Tuesday.

While that building – completed in 2009 -- also previously qualified for 
the inspection exemption … inspectors had already ordered a full façade 
inspection after a 2020 failure of a window that was left open in high 
winds.

Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin said Friday that in light of 
the failures with three newer buildings, it’s time to end the 30-year 
inspection exemption. He pointed to what happened at the Salesforce East 
building as an example of the hidden danger that might have been addressed 
if it hadn't been exempted from an initial façade inspection until 2045. 
On Tuesday more than a dozen windows broke or cracked, at least one each 
from the 11th to 30th floor, sending shards of glass raining down on the 
street.  

“This obviously made sense when it was drafted – to concentrate on older 
buildings — but now we have a rash of virtually brand new buildings and we 
have rethink this entire inspection dynamic,” Peskin said.

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The current law requires façade inspections for older buildings, with more 
than five stories, by 2021 – but only if they were built before 1910.  
Supervisor Peskin says city officials tell him that 40% of the buildings 
that qualify for those inspections have failed to meet that deadline to do 
the façade inspections.

 According to current city standards, 502 structures built between 1910-
1925 era structures will come due for inspection by the end of this year.  
A total of 438 buildings, built between 1926-1970, will be due for 
inspections at the end of 2025.  And 249 buildings, built between 1970 and 
1998, will be due for inspection in 2027.

Two other older high rises hit by recent window failures, Fox Plaza at 
1390 Market Street, and 555 California Street were due for inspections by 
2025, under the rules – but both must now be inspected within 14 days due 
to window failures.  Although building inspection records show an 11th 
floor window blew out back in 2016 at 555 California, the city records do 
not indicate that the city inspector required a complete façade inspection 
before closing the case in 2017.  

Another building where a window failed this week – At 50 California – was 
not set for a façade inspection until 2027.  Now, because of the window 
failure, it will also require an inspection within 14 days.  

Supervisor Peskin says he wants emergency inspections of 180 of the city’s 
tallest buildings. He says he is working with the mayor’s office about an 
emergency order to get it done soon, but stresses any such order would 
need the approval of the Board of Supervisors.

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/window-failures-san-
francisco/3189799/