Mysterious sign highlighting S.F. drug crisis installed on troubled street corner in SoMa

A mysterious new street sign that reads ‘No Parking’ because of a 'drug injection site' has been installed on a street corner teeming with open-air drug dealers and users in San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood.

The official-looking sign, affixed to a pedestrian crossing pole on the corner of Sixth and Jessie streets, is not a city sign, according to the Department of Public Works. It was not clear Thursday morning who was responsible for it.

The sign reads: “No Parking 12:01 a.m. to 4 a.m. SUN thru SAT DRUG INJECTION SITE”

*** Peaslee said the Sixth Street corridor between Mission and Howard streets had become significantly more crowded recently, as city officials, law enforcement and street ambassadors from nonprofits like Urban Alchemy have cracked down on drug use and encampments in the neighboring Tenderloin.

An employee at a corner store on Sixth Street, who asked not to be named because he feared for his safety, shooed drug users away from the entrance of the shop Thursday morning.

After recording a record-high number of drug overdose deaths last year, fatal overdoses in San Francisco have dropped significantly. Twenty-three people died from fentanyl overdoses last month, the lowest number since the city began keeping a monthly tally in January 2020, according to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. It’s unclear what has caused the drop, though the availability of overdose reversal medicine Narcan and more access to medication-assisted treatment could be factors.

San Francisco for years weighed opening a supervised drug-injection site, but any momentum has fizzled out over the past two years. The city’s controversial Tenderloin Center, which provided an unofficial supervised place for people to use drugs out of the public eye, was open for about a year before closing in December 2022....

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