Rachel Presley, an owner of the property, turned for help to the city’s Board of Building Appeals, which heard her appeal on Jan. 28, 2016. (Presley and her sister, Karen Karabell, are co-owners of S.F. Shannon.)

According to a two-page summary of the proceedings, Building Division Manager Ed Ware told the board that kitchens in several units lacked a required kitchen sink. Presley conceded that while some of the units in the building have a full kitchen and bathroom, eight “only have kitchens without kitchen sinks but full bathrooms.”

“She requested that all these units be considered together and that the units be acceptable without kitchen sinks. She stated that these efficiency units are generally used by single people that because of work restrictions, do not use the unit to cook a lot of meals per day. She further indicated that her family bought this building in 1975, and that these smaller units without kitchen sinks were exactly that way, and they did not make any changes.”

The board on Feb. 3, 2016, granted the appeal, but stipulated that if any “major improvements” are done to the building, the eight units be upgraded “to include a kitchen sink.”

That action appears to have cleared the way for those units to be rented.