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San Francisco building single public toilet that will cost $1.7 million and won't be completed until 2025
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zinn
Oct 20, 2022, 2:26:37 AM10/20/22
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Local officials were set to gather on Wednesday in San Francisco's Noe
Valley Town Square to celebrate their latest win: a single public toilet
that will cost as much as $1.7 million to build and won't be completed
until 2025.
But the celebration was canceled after a San Francisco Chronicle columnist
highlighted the "mind-boggling" and "maddening" details of the project.
California Assemblyman Matt Haney told the newspaper that he now considers
the price tag "inexplicable."
"When Rec and Park first told us the number, it sounded shockingly high to
me," Haney told the San Francisco Chronicle.
"I’m glad that Noe Valley will at some point get a bathroom, but it
shouldn’t cost this much, and it shouldn’t take this long, and I’m angry
about it. … It’s not something I want to celebrate right now."
A spokesperson for the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department told
Fox News Digital that the exorbitantly high cost is due to "onerous
demands and unpredictable costs levied by PG&E," construction costs that
have skyrocketed 20% to 30% in the past two years, and employment of
workers who are being paid a living wage with benefits.
"It’s also important to note that public projects and their overall cost
estimates don’t just reflect the price of erecting structures," the
spokesperson said. "They include the cost of planning, drawing, permits,
reviews, public outreach and construction management."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/san-francisco-building-single-
public-toilet-that-will-cost-1-7-million-and-won-t-be-completed-until-
2025/ar-
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Valley Town Square to celebrate their latest win: a single public toilet
that will cost as much as $1.7 million to build and won't be completed
until 2025.
But the celebration was canceled after a San Francisco Chronicle columnist
highlighted the "mind-boggling" and "maddening" details of the project.
California Assemblyman Matt Haney told the newspaper that he now considers
the price tag "inexplicable."
"When Rec and Park first told us the number, it sounded shockingly high to
me," Haney told the San Francisco Chronicle.
"I’m glad that Noe Valley will at some point get a bathroom, but it
shouldn’t cost this much, and it shouldn’t take this long, and I’m angry
about it. … It’s not something I want to celebrate right now."
A spokesperson for the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department told
Fox News Digital that the exorbitantly high cost is due to "onerous
demands and unpredictable costs levied by PG&E," construction costs that
have skyrocketed 20% to 30% in the past two years, and employment of
workers who are being paid a living wage with benefits.
"It’s also important to note that public projects and their overall cost
estimates don’t just reflect the price of erecting structures," the
spokesperson said. "They include the cost of planning, drawing, permits,
reviews, public outreach and construction management."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/san-francisco-building-single-
public-toilet-that-will-cost-1-7-million-and-won-t-be-completed-until-
2025/ar-
AA13a6pY?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=986f04d4bbd5451c9cf2b9bd0976f838
26C.Z968
Oct 21, 2022, 1:06:16 AM10/21/22
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I saw that story. It's a story about the horror
of "Woke" America.
Ya know how much it costs to built a little public
shitter ? About NOTHING ... a few bricks, a few
pipes, a few bowls. You can buy all that stuff
from Lowe's or Ace for DIRT CHEAP.
YET SanFran managed to turn it into a 1.7 ... ok
it'll be 2 ... MILLION dollar affair.
And yea, the bums/dopers/killers WILL immediately
colonize the facility ... so nobody gets to USE it
unless they have a death wish.
of "Woke" America.
Ya know how much it costs to built a little public
shitter ? About NOTHING ... a few bricks, a few
pipes, a few bowls. You can buy all that stuff
from Lowe's or Ace for DIRT CHEAP.
YET SanFran managed to turn it into a 1.7 ... ok
it'll be 2 ... MILLION dollar affair.
And yea, the bums/dopers/killers WILL immediately
colonize the facility ... so nobody gets to USE it
unless they have a death wish.
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