Posted on 02/24/2011 7:58:30 AM PST by SmithL
It sounds like a no-brainer. The Tenderloin needs more bathrooms.
"Everybody who walks through here says it smells like urinal," said Dina Hilliard, interim executive director of the North of Market/Tenderloin Community Benefit District.
Actually, it smells worse than that. SF Clean City, which does yeoman work cleaning Tenderloin streets, charted the "incidents of human waste and urine," between January and July of last year. Including data from the Department of Public Works, the totals ranged from 600 to 800 incidents a month.
And yet, with all the service organizations in the neighborhood - offering everything from counseling to drug treatment, housing advocacy and free meals - almost none of them provide a supervised public toilet.
That's ridiculous. The large organizations, like St. Anthony's and Glide Memorial Church, serve thousands of hearty meals every day and then send their clients out into the neighborhood with virtually no place to use the restroom. No wonder there are feces and urine on their streets.
"As someone said, what goes in must come out," said Tim Svoboda, director of the San Francisco branch of Youth With a Mission, whose group is one of the few that allows walk-ins to use their toilet.
It is easy to imagine why the nonprofits would rather avoid the issue. The facility would need a full-time monitor to keep people from using the bathrooms for drug use, prostitution or other unsavory behavior. Cleaning the facilities would be unpleasant and even dangerous. Workers who clean feces off the city street wear protective clothing because they don't know what they might encounter. . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
/ David Spade type "humor"
Having grown up in Louisiana including New Orleans, the French Quarter always had the smell of a mixture of horse "road apples", urine and poop. Very nice to smell while chomping down on a Shrimp Poboy.
I have a pretty wide vocabulary, and that was a new one for me...(shudder)
A public health disaster in the making.
We stay on the Embarcadero when we go to Giants games. Still relatively clean, no odor and only a few miles from the Park.
I used to go there as a kid all the time and a once beautiful town is a sewer now. I rarely go away from the Embarcadero.
It cost her much, but had to be done due to city health requirements... And her unwillingness to sift a frilin human litter box every day.
About 20 years ago my wife and I drove into San Fransisco from the central valley. After fighting traffic on the bay bridge, we arrived in downtown. My wife was desperate to use a rest room so I pulled up in front of the Federal Building and let her out. No restrooms were available in there and no one would let her use one. We then tried a restaurant or two and no one would let her. We finally found a hotel lobby with an unlocked restroom.
That’s what I was going to post!
Couldn't walk down the street without tripping on an "urban outdoorsman". No exaggeration. Whatever you subsidize, you get more of.
I live here and commute to SF. The unintended consequences of Liberalism are everywhere.
“full-time monitor to keep people from using the bathrooms for drug use, prostitution or other unsavory behavior”
Is a San Francisco newspaper intimating that homeless male homosexuals repeatedly plunging their penises in and out of each other’s feces-and-sperm-smeared rectums and mouths in a public bathroom would be somehow “unsavory”? ‘Cause that’s what I think they’re getting at with the line I quoted.
Declare yourself a ‘Sanctuary City: a few dollars
Response from illegals & homeless : overhwelming
Urine/human waste health & scent problems following above: PRICELESS
Is there NO ONE in San Fran who can connect the dots?????
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