236 3rd Ave, San Francisco, CA 94118

The property at 236 3rd Avenue is a two-story, three-unit multi-family residential building located in San Francisco's Inner Richmond neighborhood, owned by the Helen Mar Chin Revocable Trust and constructed in 1980. The building's most significant issues arose in April 2004 during a routine housing inspection, which documented multiple fire safety violations including improper combustible storage in the garage, unaddressed combustible materials near parked vehicles, and missing smoke detectors in stairways.

These violations resulted in several notices of violation (NOVs) but were ultimately abated by July 2004. A subsequent similar fire safety violation was recorded in 2010, though all violations from both incidents were eventually resolved.

More recent concerns include a 2019 complaint regarding unpermitted interior remodeling work being conducted by unlicensed contractors, though this complaint is now listed as not active. The building has generated several 311 calls over the years, primarily related to parking issues (including a blocked driveway incident in 2024 and a double parking complaint in 2019), as well as cases involving graffiti (2016) and tree root issues affecting property (2013) - though the latter was found to be nonexistent upon inspection. The property's record shows a pattern of fire safety compliance issues in the early 2000s, which were addressed at the time, but there have been no documented fire safety violations in recent years.