Haley Gonzaba, Manager

Lakewood Apartments

515 John Muir Drive

San Francisco, California 94132-1020

1.) Letter, Lakewood Tenant Association to Haley Gonzaba, resident manager, Lakewood Apartments, Jan. 24, 2008

2.) Email, Ross Wilkinson to Haley Gonzaba, resident manager, Lakewood Apartments, Feb. 28, 2008

3.) Email, Haley Gonzaba, resident manager, Lakewood Apartments, to Ross Wilkinson, Feb. 28, 2008

Re: (1) Response to Your Email re Approval of Conversion of Two Garage Doors to Emergency Exits, (2) Door Survey

Dear Ms. Gonzaba:

I thought it would be appropriate to respond to your email response (ref. 3) to my original email (ref. 2) formally. The text of our emails is attached herein.

It is Lakewood management that told us recently that Lakewood has a letter approving conversion of two of the garage/interior doors to emergency exits by removing the locking devices and so I believe it is Lakewood, not the city, who is obligated to the tenants to back up that claim.

Security and safety are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Emergency exits would have been required as part of the original building design. It may be that at some later time additional emergency exits were legally required to satisfy some retroactive new requirement. However, I believe Lakewood is obligated to either demonstrate that additional emergency exits were legally required in the two areas involved and also to demonstrate that it was not possible to provide such exits in some way that would not violate the code requirements for ingress/egress security or restore the security of those two doors. If you would like to inspect the locations in question with us we would be happy to do so for discussion purposes.

We have previously provided (ref. 1) your office with a detailed survey of the security of the exterior doors. In that survey, we reported to you that the door at the front of the "F" building at grade had rusted hinges and that that door would rest open. Yesterday returning home I noticed that door resting open. Again this morning I notice that door resting open so Mona Cereghino and I photographed it (see photo below) along with a newspaper to prove that the photograph was taken no earlier than today, some 35 days after the problem was disclosed to Lakewood in our letter (ref. 1). I cannot imagine how Lakewood management could overlook such an obvious invitation to criminals to enter the property. Do the owners really want the property to appear this way to prospective new residents? I am disappointed that Lakewood has apparently not taken advantage of the efforts Mona Cereghino and I previous made, via the survey, to help Lakewood management accomplish their own responsibilities to maintain the property to minimum safety standards. We have received no response to our previous letter (ref. 1) noting the apparent failure of Lakewood to keep its prior commitments to maintain a numbering system for the doors and perform routine inspection and repair of doors failing to meet code security requirements.

Sincerely,

cc: News Page Ross Wilkinson, Vice-president

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Date:	Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:47:12 -0800 (PST)
From:	"Ross Wilkinson" <lakeshoretenant@sbcglobal.net> Add to Address Book Add Mobile Alert
Subject:	Conversion of Garage Doors to Emergency Exits
To:	HaleyG@calamerican.com
CC:	"LTA" <lakewoodtenants@hotmail.com>

Haley,

Just a reminder that LTA is still waiting for Lakewood to produce the letter your maintenance manager claimed you have that documents SFDBI and SFFD approved the conversion of two garage/lobby doors into emergency exits.

Ross Wilkinson, V.P.

Lakewood Tenants Association

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From:	"Haley Gonzaba" <haleyg@calamerican.com> Add to Address Book Add Mobile Alert
To:	"'Ross Wilkinson'" <lakeshoretenant@sbcglobal.net>
Subject:	RE: Conversion of Garage Doors to Emergency Exits
Date:	Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:49:26 -0800

We are waiting for a copy to be sent from Alan Davis.  If you like you can

contact him directly.