Flushing Money: San Francisco to Spend $1.7 Million to Build a Single Public Toilet

National Review via Yaoo ^ | October 19, 2022 | Ryan Mills

[grundle]

Evidently no longer content to flush public money down just any old toilet, the city of San Francisco is upping its toilet game and is prepared to spend up to $1.7 million to build a single commode in one neighborhood plaza.

City leaders are slated to gather Wednesday afternoon at the Noe Valley Town Square to officially announce a “$1.7 Million state budget win” to build a toilet there, according to an online event schedule. The proposed facility would include just one toilet in a 150-foot space, according to a new report by San Francisco Chronicle columnist Heather Knight.

The city’s Recreation and Parks Department and the Department of Public Works, which will work together to build the pricey potty, expect it will take three years to complete.

San Francisco tops the list of the world’s most expensive cities to build in, and the proposed million-dollar toilet helps explain why. While construction costs everywhere have risen over the past couple of years due to inflation and supply-chain challenges, the process to install a single toilet in a San Francisco plaza that already has plumbing includes a maze of planning, permitting, reviews, and public outreach, according to the Chronicle report.

[Boogieman]

They don’t need 1.7 million to build the toilet. They need 1.7 million to pay for round-the-clock security to make sure the homeless don’t build a camp around the toilet.

[G Larry]

Is this to enlarge the gutters on Market St.?

[who_would_fardels_bear]

In Paris they have these full-metal toilets. One person goes in, it locks, you do your business, and then walk out.

Then the toilet locks itself and sprays water all over the inside.

This provides a level of cleanliness and discourages the homeless from using it as a shelter.

I can't see this being very popular in a state that wants to save water and where someone could pretend to get stuck inside and sue.

[monkeyshine]

They will need $1.7 million every year just to hire a full time crew to keep it clean per health and safety codes.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

We need to send in some Romans and have them build some aqueducts. That’s how far back San Fran has fallen.

[G Larry]

Do you mean after the next 9.0 Quake?

[Mr Ramsbotham]

They need 1.7 million to pay for round-the-clock security to make sure the homeless don’t build a camp around the toilet.

And to make sure the denizens don't use it as a trysting place.

[John Milner]

Combo facility:

1 toilet.

Also, sleeps 12.

[Billthedrill]

A 10 x 15 room for a single crapper? Hope they budgeted in the chandelier.

[PGR88]

The USA has the most bloated, expensive government in the world

[FlingWingFlyer]

I wouldn’t take the job cleaning that ****house for any wage.

[GOPJ]

They should build a trench through ‘homeless’ sections that ‘flushes’ once a day at 8 pm... They can use saltwater or gray water... cheaper then the stench.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Can you imagine who many panhandlers will be camped out around that thing?

[DouglasKC]

he process to install a single toilet in a San Francisco plaza that already has plumbing includes a maze of planning, permitting, reviews, and public outreach, according to the Chronicle report.

Grift, pay off money, bribes, corruption...that's where 1.7 million dollars goes for a toilet.

[minnesota_bound]

The city officials do not care that business’s are leaving.
Those in charge are stealing money like this $1.7 Million. They are just bigger thieves then the ones robbing into the stores directly.

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[Dr. Pritchett]

Wow!! I wish I could be the first one to use a 1.7-million-dollar toilet!!!!

[Chode]

it’s a $1MM combine toilet/gloryhole/shooting gallery...

[sasquatch]

The entire city is a toilet.

[roadcat]

Grift, pay off money, bribes, corruption...that's where 1.7 million dollars goes for a toilet.

Absolutely. From the article:
"The public toilet will be built by union workers who will “earn a living wage and benefits,” according to a joint statement from Rec and Parks Department and the Department of Public Works..."

In the past, I worked for SFPD doing IT work. A manager wanted to put in a small glass partition between two cubicles. SF rules were that DPW would do the work. DPW rep said the work order was too small, they won't do it unless it was a large project. Manager changed the plans to include rebuilding the entire office for a dozen people, and DPW finally agreed to do the work. Impossible to get cheap projects worked on; all about wasting tax dollars.