15 Cook St, San Francisco, CA 94118

The two-unit residential building at 15 Cook Street, owned by Varum Alex, is a two-story flats and duplex structure built in 1986 in the Jordan Park/Laurel Heights neighborhood. The building's most significant recent issue involves a collapsed sidewalk that was reported in August 2024 and remains unresolved.

This follows another notable ongoing concern from June 2020 regarding tree roots lifting the sidewalk, which was accepted for action by the Department of Public Works. The building has undergone several permitted improvements, including kitchen cabinet replacements in 2010 at a cost of $2,400 in the upper unit, and structural modifications in the late 1990s when the fire escape was replaced with an open stair. The property has experienced recurring street maintenance challenges, with multiple reports of loose garbage in 2017, though these were resolved through city cleanup services.

The building's location has seen various municipal interactions primarily related to street maintenance and parking enforcement. Between 2020 and 2024, there have been multiple enforcement actions including a resolved citation for sidewalk parking in February 2024, an attempted but unsuccessful response to a driveway blocking complaint in January 2020, and two general cleaning interventions by Recology in 2017. While the building's structure appears to have been maintained through proper permitting processes since its construction, the most pressing concerns for prospective residents would be the unresolved sidewalk issues, which appear to be a consistent problem in the vicinity of the property.