Darin Ranelletti Oakland’s interim director of planning and building - should be fired
owned by Chor N. Ng of Oakland - should be arrested
Records show Ng owns 11 other Oakland properties, including an art gallery and retail building on International Boulevard, and at least two in San Francisco. A tenant at one of the Oakland properties would only describe her as a nice woman.
She also owns a business called Kingmaker Marketing and Consulting.
in other words a multi-millionaire
She will be sued well beyond here insurance limits. She will need to lawyer up tomorrow.
I would be very interested to find out how much the owner has contributed to Democrat campaigns.
Sounds like this inspection goes waaaaaaaay back.
If they had shut this place down and evicted all of the occupants there would have been a deafening cry from the freak "artists" living there (and their supporters) clamoring for the mayor and city council members to be run out of office.
in other words a multi-millionaire
Not anymore.
Why on earth would anybody expect Liberals to follow the law or expect a Leftist bureaucrat to do their job?
“officials conceded Saturday they had been unable to gain access during an inspection visit”
BS. Fire inspector shows up, it’s all access. And the plans on file better match what they see on the ground, or the permit fees that should have been paid will be exceeded only by the permit fees to bring it up to code. This is gross negligence by a govt agency— the landlords won’t be the only ones being sued.
Apparently the Ng family let the property to an intermediary who sublet it to others. In such a case, who would be liable, the building owner or the intermediary, especially if the intermediary had presumably signed a rental agreement stipulating that the warehouse was to be used in a legally proper and responsible manner, and if (perhaps) the intermediary repeatedly lied to the owner about the exact details of the subletting (and the events)? I am not arguing that any specific person be let off the hook but just that due diligence be performed on who exactly the responsible party or parties are in this type of situation.
I’ve owned multi-unit properties in Los Angeles in the past, and when they come to do their inspections there’s no such thing as “unable to gain access” in their vocabulary.
The fire inspectors are covering up their dereliction of duty here.
.........yet another example of “government” not being able to perform even the slightest task!
They should have closed the building until they completed the inspection.