QUESTION
How does the Department of Buildings follow-up on unsafe buildings to ensure repairs are made?
2:01:31
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The Department of Buildings requires property owners to conduct necessary repairs for vacate orders to be lifted, after which they conduct a follow-up inspection.
- The onus is on the property owner to make necessary repairs following a vacate order.
- After repairs are completed, the Department conducts another inspection to potentially lift the vacate order.
- Lifting vacate orders, especially for larger cases affecting significant building portions, is complex and involves many moving parts.
- The Department works closely with partner agencies, property owners, their design professionals, contractors, and tenants to coordinate repair efforts.
Pierina Ana Sanchez
2:01:31
When the department determines that there may be a structural issue that deems the building a building unsafe, possibly leading to a vacate order, How does the how does the department continue to follow-up with the owner and with tenants to ensure that repairs are made when possible?
UNKNOWN
2:02:00
What the issues are that led to the vacate being issued?
2:02:03
And then after that point, the the onus is on the property owner to conduct the necessary repairs in order to have the vacay lifted.
2:02:10
Once the repairs have been conducted, then we conduct another inspection in order to lift a vacate order.
2:02:15
But as you're familiar with larger vacates that impact significant portions of buildings, you can get pretty complicated to lift the vacate order.
2:02:23
There's a lot of moving parts.
2:02:26
We work closely with our partner agencies, as Deputy Commissioner Santiago mentioned earlier, and there have been instances of increased coordination by DLB with property owners, their design professionals, their contractors, and even tenants.
