Just local craftspeople, hard at work.
Posted on 07/21/2022 3:51:32 PM PDT by grundle
San Francisco, one of California’s most progressive cities, has has fenced-off a plaza within its Mission district due to blackmarket activity and rampant open-air drug use.
The lawlessness has greatly disturbed the neighborhood, San Francisco District 9 Supervisor Hillary Ronen shared on Twitter Wednesday, forcing her to close off access to the problematic area until the situation is resolved.
“While it is never my desire to close public space the situation at 24th & Mission BART plaza has become untenable & is causing problems for the whole neighborhood. It infuriates me to see a once beautiful & vibrant community space overrun by open-air drug markets & vendors selling stolen goods,” she wrote.
“It’s been chaotic and it’s getting increasingly dangerous,” Ronen told the San Francisco Chronicle.
A new fence has been erected as a temporary solution while the Public Works department creates a vendor permit application process, which should be finalized by mid-August. More street inspectors will also be trained, Ronen said.
“Once the permits are available Public Works can begin confiscating goods from unpermitted vendors. SFPD & Public Works will continue to enforce ADA laws to ensure safe access to the sidewalk,” she added.
The local government is working to re-open the plaza as a community space in collaboration with the Calle 24 Latino Cultural District and BART, Ronen said.
“(The issues have) created a feeling of unsafeness and a feeling of hopelessness,” Susana Rojas, executive director of Calle 24, told the Chronicle. “Through the pandemic there has been a lot of suffering and that is very visible in our communities… we know that the fencing is one of the temporary tools to be able to bring back the plaza in a community way.”
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how about you arrest the sum bitches! so public safety is primary instead of junkies getting their damn fix!
LEX
Liberals tell me that walls don’t work, and they are evil. Now here we have San Francisco putting up a wall of sorts.
I am so confused.
They needed a zoo.
Gentle people with flowers in their hair....
Basically in the mind of a leftist whenever a conservative does something it’s evil but righteous when a leftist does the same.
Just local craftspeople, hard at work.
They have to sell that smash and grab merchandise someplace.
Huh. I wonder what a license to sell meth and fentanyl will cost?
Junkies not the proble.
Black-market vendors with no permits.
“SFPD & Public Works will continue to enforce ADA laws” ... but NOT enforce illegal drug laws ... so drug dealers, make sure you have wheelchair ramps & ADA-approved portapotties ...
I read: SAN FRANCISCO FECES OFF DISTRICT.
So they do believe in fences and walls.................
It’s been chaotic and it’s getting increasingly dangerous,” Ronen told the San Francisco Chronicle.
She added, “And I have no idea how it happened.”
When is the point that the people who live in these neighborhoods get the hell together and do SOMETHING to take back their neighborhood? Are they just going to go down with the ship? Split for more congenial climes? What? This is mystifying the degree to which they’ll eat government leftist shit.
I know that area it’s it’s total gong show.
Gavin should put them on a bus and deliver them to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. there is a big open court yard several block lying for them to set up housing / shelter.
Sure that Joe can arrange for Snap cards and food for these hard working vagrants
Thats 24th and Mission, a major BART station. A lot of people commute from there. Its going to be a problem.
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