Posted on 01/26/2007 10:21:01 AM PST by SmithL
A plan to turn the old armory building on Mission Street into a porn film studio has run into a wall of opposition, with several community groups expressing outrage that a company specializing in bondage videos intends to move into their family-filled neighborhood.
The backlash against Kink, a Web-based pornography distributor currently housed South of Market, has prompted Mayor Gavin Newsom's office to take notice but caused other city officials to simply shrug apologetically.
Because the company, which has quietly called San Francisco home since its founding a decade ago, doesn't plan to make any structural changes to the building, it will not have to seek approval from the city Planning Commission, officials said.
The structure already is zoned for commercial and industrial use, which under San Francisco law includes film production.
"The planning code ... is not really worried with moral propriety," said Amit Ghosh, director of the city's planning department. The building, bought by Kink in December for $14.9 million, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was built in 1912 and served as a military induction and training center during the two world wars, but has sat empty since 1970 and been the subject of bitter neighborhood fights over development and gentrification during the past decade.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
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"Thank you for calling the offices of KINK...we'd love to answer your call, but we're all tied up right now..."
Or something like that...
Gee, I am surprised. This type of industry, twisted porn, and the such should just fit right in with the radical left of San Freakcisco....just think of all the jobs it would provide to San Freakcisco's, shall we say, less than normal population....
Just make the building a porn film studio where the actors are all homeless people -- both problems solved.
I think that's a premature exclamation.
I guess they'll be in a bind whether they get the building or not.
I like the concept tremendously (and say that as an ex-SFer), but isn't that view looking from SF to Marin?
I moved out of Sin City in 1980, btw, having moved in in 1977.
Workman's comp? I could imagine the claim forms for that. And what happens if one of the "lifestyle players" tries to claim that an "injury" outside of the workplace happened at work?
Will the local investigative reporting crew be following the employees around with cameras: "Mistress Spanks-a-lot is receiving workman's comp because of an injury to her whipping arm keeps her from working, but this secret video shows that she can still swing a mean whip on her own time."
Some kind of group from San Francisco put together a bunch of porn for child offenders. If a child got caught, the whole family (minor siblings too) had to watch these porn films, including beastiality. The LCA Minnesota Synod was involved with this and defended it, using it through their Social Services branch, as I recall. Herb Chilstrom was the local synod bishop and became the head of the 5.3 million ELCA.
Some objected to this and left the Minnesota Synod. Most did not. The synod grew. This was all in the 1980's.
Got it, and now I get that the joke is that the off-ramp leaves the US sector, I think yes?
I blame the strip-mall owner for being greedy.
OTOH, they're getting an early start for a lifetime of, "This one time, at band camp..." jokes.
Reminds me of the SNL Nancy Pelosi skit, as long as it's two consenting adults and they agree on a stop and release word like "pomegranate."
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