1200 Cortland Ave, San Francisco, CA 94110

The two-story, five-unit multi-family residential building at 1200 Cortland Avenue in Bernal Heights, built in 1959 and owned by the Thomas W Broussard Jr Living Trust, has undergone several significant improvements and required safety upgrades over the years. Most notably, the building completed mandatory soft-story seismic strengthening in 2014, which included reinforcing the first floor and garage door with a steel frame, demonstrating compliance with safety requirements.

Other substantial structural improvements were made in 2014, including voluntary strengthening work involving additional hardware installation and corner reinforcement. The building has seen regular maintenance and upgrades, including the recent installation of retrofit windows in Unit #4 in 2022, window replacements in 2014, exterior staircase rebuilding in 2008, and electrical upgrades for the garage door systems in 2004.

The property has a history of routine safety inspections by Housing Inspection Services in 1999, 2001, and 2008, all of which were resolved without noted concerns. While there have been multiple 311 calls related to street and sidewalk issues near the property between 2019 and 2024, these primarily involved external infrastructure matters such as pavement defects, missing sewer vent covers, and parking concerns, rather than building-specific problems. The most recent building work was completed in 2014, when the property achieved its Tier 3 soft-story compliance with a Certificate of Final Completion (CFC) being issued, indicating that all required seismic safety improvements were properly implemented and inspected.