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San Francisco is forcing couple to remove sidewalk 'obstruction' — or pay $1,400. It's a little free library.
Business Insider via Yahoo ^ | March 26, 2023 | Aidan Pollard

Posted on 03/26/2023 3:31:56 PM PDT by grundle

A couple in San Francisco was told to remove an obstruction from the sidewalk in front of their house, or pay a $1,402 fine. The city's target: a little free library.

The library is part of a crackdown in San Francisco on unpermitted objects that interfere with public ways, the Wall Street Journal reported. The city has a hotline for anonymous tips about the obstructions, which include decades-old awnings on businesses in the city's Chinatown district, and benches constructed by residents for the convenience of passersby.

The library, a sturdy wooden box that sits on a statue and resembles a dollhouse, is owned by Susan and Joe Meyers.

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San Francisco doesn't prosecute public defecation, public drug use, serial shoplifting, car break-ins, or hate crimes against Asians. But here's something they do prosecute.
1 posted on 03/26/2023 3:31:56 PM PDT by grundle
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It is blocking the sidewalk. They could easily contain it within their yard and people still be able to access it. City is correct.


2 posted on 03/26/2023 3:36:16 PM PDT by gunsequalfreedom (ui)
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3 posted on 03/26/2023 3:36:38 PM PDT by TexasGator
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There are a few around here. I find sodden books in the woods. I imagine the homeless use them to start fires. Probably a source of toilet paper in SF.


4 posted on 03/26/2023 3:38:55 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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By that rationale, they could ask that the tents be removed from the sidewalks. Not gonna happen.


5 posted on 03/26/2023 3:41:17 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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I’d probably just move it if someone complained, its hardly worth the headache but jeez...I can’t imagine even complaining about something like this.


6 posted on 03/26/2023 3:41:51 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: grundle

Reading’s for fags.


7 posted on 03/26/2023 3:43:10 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Bureaucrats gonna bureaucrat. They can’t crack down on the homeless citizens blocking sidewalks so they pick on the little people who aren’t really causing any public harm. Just like the gun banners who want to take firearms from law abiding citizens and refuse to lock up the criminals who use them.


8 posted on 03/26/2023 3:44:40 PM PDT by gunsmithkat (There is no such thing as Too Many Guns)
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Change its designation from a library to a tiny house - for the homeless.


9 posted on 03/26/2023 3:46:00 PM PDT by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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The city rules. It’s a public sidewalk....not for your little hobby. Find another spot.


10 posted on 03/26/2023 3:46:13 PM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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With all the yucky things showing up on the sidewalks and streets of San Francisco, and they want to remove this?
11 posted on 03/26/2023 3:48:35 PM PDT by Jess Kitting
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It would have been fine with the city if they took up twice the space with a free needle and syringe kiosk.


12 posted on 03/26/2023 3:50:16 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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Unless it’s a garbage bag or a person in a tent. Then it’s OK. Don’t really have any sympathy because they’re dumb enough to live in the City but they’re only being fined because they will pay it.


13 posted on 03/26/2023 3:52:42 PM PDT by MTBobcat (The “rank-and-file” are as corrupted as their leadership.)
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How will the liberals signal their virtue if the little libraries are torn down?


14 posted on 03/26/2023 3:53:04 PM PDT by Senator_Blutarski
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Gotta go where the money is.


15 posted on 03/26/2023 3:53:39 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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Anarcho-tyranny.


16 posted on 03/26/2023 3:56:33 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: grundle

San Francisco uppozes liturasee.


17 posted on 03/26/2023 3:59:12 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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> It is blocking the sidewalk. They could easily contain it within their yard and people still be able to access it. City is correct.

Yep, should have put it in their yard.


18 posted on 03/26/2023 4:03:19 PM PDT by glorgau
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lol disgise it as homeless tent/shelter


19 posted on 03/26/2023 4:04:06 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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Reading’s for fags.

Idiotic comment of the day.

20 posted on 03/26/2023 4:23:24 PM PDT by ytrebil
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