Posted on 09/18/2023 11:33:12 AM PDT by Vendome
Fed up with illegal activity and loiterers, the community, Walgreens and Supervisor Rafael Mandelman came together to place plants outside a popular corner store in the Castro.
Allen Janz, whose dad lives around the corner, took notice of the new planters outside the Walgreens at 18th and Castro streets.
"They're very pretty. And I think they're going to be trashed. I mean, they'll be trashed in a couple days I think," said Janz, who is visiting from Anchorage, Alaska. "And I don't have an issue with it, but the homeless people are just going to just move around the corner."
Walgreens provided the planters, SF Public Works paid for the soil and plants, and Mandelman invited the community to fill them over the weekend.
"We have people setting up tents right outside the house," Janz said of his dad's house.
"Like two days in a row, there's homeless right outside my flat and I should be maybe sympathetic of course, but I'm not really sympathetic. I'm just tired of this," said Geoff Wilson.
"I thought it was a good idea at first," he said of the planters. "People congregate there, which is OK in my eyes, but open drug use, and using the bathroom there and leaving trash there is not OK. I have to deal with that on the regular, because I'm also homeless."
Other neighborhoods in San Francisco have used industrial planters in hopes of discouraging encampments.
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Good grief, they’re just supplying toilets for the homeless.
Homeless: “Heyyyy.. I found a new toilet!”
Plant cactus, roses with thorns and other plants like that.
Wouldn’t they basically become porta potties?
They also need to pipe classical music to the outside of the store. Better yet, just play “White Punks on Dope” on an endless loop. The Tubes were a San Francisco band, after all.
Pyracantha, aka firethorn, is the best defensive planting there is. It’s tough, survives neglect as long as you water it every month or two, and has truly vicious thorns. It also looks OK if you keep it trimmed (warning, you will bleed while trimming it) and has nice white flowers that develop into red berries. Plant pyracantha bushes under a ground-floor window, and nobody will climb through that window.
WOW. A nice new clean row of toilets for the homeless
The trick is to drive away the derelects, NOT the paying customers too!
Yep. Cactus would do it...or Poison Ivy, LOL!
I’m all for arresting vagrants and dumping them outside of city limits after a nice Hickory shampoo.
If they play that awful Manilow song, Miracle, on a 24/7/365 loop I can guarantee you those vagrants will leave.
In the old days they paid protection money to less offensive people, who became more offensive, so they stick with the homeless offensive.
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