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Re: On the lookout for turds' S.F. sidewalk survey identifies which blocks are poopiest

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On 2024-12-07, John Smyth <smythlejon2@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Better wear boots when walking around the city of San Francisco.
>
> 'On the lookout for turds’: S.F. sidewalk survey identifies which blocks
> are poopiest'
><https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/poop-sf-city-street-19964427.php>
>
> 'Annette Margolis waved a green dog bag as her pitbull-boxer mix did his
> business Friday morning. 
>
> “I’ve got a bag,” she said, smiling cheerfully as she scooped up the dog
> droppings.
>
> Unfortunately, across the city, thousands of residents aren’t picking up
> their pets’ waste – and that’s perhaps the less gross part of the
> problem. Also more common on San Francisco’s sidewalks over the past
> year, which will surprise no one who walks around the city, are human
> feces, according to the Controller’s latest Street & Sidewalk
> Maintenance Standards Report.
>
> The 37-page document, distilled from 2,600 in person evaluations over
> the 2024 fiscal year, contained some good news: in the last year,
> sidewalk and street litter has dwindled, along with illegal dumping. But
> graffiti has remained steady. And feces, well, there’s just more of it.
>
> The survey identified the neighborhoods with highest fecal frequency as
> the South of Market, Tenderloin, Castro and Mission neighborhoods. The
> block with dubious distinction of most poop sightings – 46 – was on
> Market Street, between Gough and Octavia Streets, followed closely by
> Folsom between 24th and 25th Streets with 32 sightings and Mendell
> Street between La Salle and McKinnon Avenues at 31.
>
>
> For local residents, the current assessment came with exasperation but
> little surprise, receiving little more than a shrug.
>
> “It’s standard,” said Phil Holt, leaning against his bike near San
> Francisco’s apparently poopiest place, Gough and Market. Formerly
> homeless, he is now living in a tiny home nearby, but said he regularly
> frequents that corner.
>
> “You’re missing out on life if you’ve gotta be on the lookout for
> turds,” he said.
>
> Annette Margolis walks her boxer-pit mix, Tyson. Margolis lives on a
> block that the city recently identified as having some of the highest
> observations of fecal sightings, but Margolis wasn't fazed.
> Annette Margolis walks her boxer-pit mix, Tyson. Margolis lives on a
> block that the city recently identified as having some of the highest
> observations of fecal sightings, but Margolis wasn't fazed.
> St. John Barned-Smith
> The city’s filthy sidewalks and streets have been a major complaint for
> residents for years, leading the Board of Supervisors in 1978 to pass a
> “pooper scooper” ordinance that then-Supervisor Harvey Milk called a
> “step in the right direction” in reining in pet poop scofflaws. That
> appears to have been before human excrement became a widespread problem.
>
> San Francisco’s battle with public poop has led the city to spend
> millions on toilets across the city, including in areas like the
> Tenderloin and Mission, and even sparked the creation of a short-lived
> Poop Patrol in 2018.
>
> But San Francisco’s dung dilemma gained wider attention in recent years
> – practically becoming its own meme – as detractors have used the
> situation to lampoon the city. Fla. Gov. Ron DeSantis made headlines in
> 2023 while debating Gov. Gavin Newsom when he pulled out a map of
> reported scat sightings from 2011 to 2019 – that was just the city
> completely covered in brown. 
>
> On Friday, Department of Public Works spokesperson Rachel Gordon
> pooh-poohed the latest findings, stressing the city’s widespread efforts
> to deal with the issue. 
>
> Public works crews – equipped with steam cleaners – regularly patrol the
> city, and remove any droppings they come across, she said. 
>
> “We don’t want people to walk through, or by, feces,” she said. 
>
>
> Over the past few years, the public works department has rolled out 30
> public toilets across 13 city neighborhoods.
>
> That includes high traffic areas such as U.N. Plaza, or out at Ocean
> Beach. Since 2014, city residents and visitors have used its public
> toilets more than 5 million times – or a flush a minute, for a decade. 
>
> “People should have a place to go to the bathroom with dignity,” she
> said, “not only to keep feces off the street, but because people should
> have a place to go to the bathroom.”
>
> In a city where dogs allegedly outnumber children, Gordon said she
> believed much of the droppings came from pet owners who haven’t learned
> they need to pick up after their furry companions.
>
> “We don’t DNA test the poop,” she said, “but we do think a lot of it is
> dog waste. … We want to get dog owners to do what they should be doing
> by law – pick up after their dogs. And we’re seeing that a lot, people
> just aren’t doing that.”
>
> To that end, the city has rolled out a marketing campaign, placing
> hundreds of posters in businesses in prolific poop areas, urging dog
> owners to “DOO THE RIGHT THING,” and pick up after their pets – or risk
> a $300 fine.
>
> A poster from the San Francisco Department of Public Works urging pet
> owners to pick up their pets' waste
> A poster from the San Francisco Department of Public Works urging pet
> owners to pick up their pets' waste
> Courtesy SF DPW
> According to the report, about 30% of city streets had scat sightings
> between July 2023 and June 2024.
>
> “It cooks into the cement,” said a barista at The Buoy, a cafe near
> Market and Gough. “The smell is so strong. You can’t see anything and it
> still smells so bad.”
>
> According to the report, SoMa had the highest average feces count,
> followed by the Tenderloin. Chinatown and Noe Valley/Glen Park/Twin
> Peaks and West of Twin Peaks had the lowest percentage of routes with
> where surveyors spotted poop.
>
> Some of the pots with the highest frequency of fecal observations
> included Folsom, between 22nd and 25th Streets, Market Street, between
> Gough and Octavia, and several streets in the Tenderloin, such as Jones
> between Geary and O’Farrell.
>
>
> S.F. streets have less litter — but poop remains a persistent problem
> Every year, the controller’s office collects data on street and sidewalk
> litter, larger dumped items, graffiti and feces — both human and
> nonhuman — as well as several other markers of street cleanliness.
> S.F. spends millions toward public toilets, but complai'
>

I'll bet if a person gets caught not picking up after their dog they will be
charged with a felony.
BTW NYC is the same mess along with the stench of weed in the air.
It's disgusting.
Welcome to democrat run cities.

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On the lookout for turds' S.F. sidewalk survey identifies which blocks are poopiest John Smyth <smythlejon2@hotmail.com> - 2024-12-07 10:51 -0500
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