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Re:San Francisco to Spend $1.7M to Build a Single Public Toilet by notch656a on Thursday October 20, 2022 @12:59PM (#33277524)
>But damn if this city doesn’t try its hardest, moreso than almost any other city I know of.

This is the problem.

The problem is you're trying too damn hard. Just build the fucking toilet. Less trying hard to do things the perfect way and be better than "almost any other city." At this point you should be looking at Camden or Gary IN for inspiration.

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Re:San Francisco to Spend $1.7M to Build a Single Public Toilet by jquery on Thursday October 20, 2022 @03:53PM (#33279827)
>“Just build the toilet”

Did you think we are doing anything else? The article makes it pretty clear that’s all that is happening, but it’s making a big fuss over the fact some planning needs to take place, and that the planning website has some corporate-speak about doing our best or whatever.

$1.7m is what it costs to hook up a full service public restroom in SF from idea to completion. It’s not cheap to build on top of fully developed area, you can’t just “dig and hope for the best”. No, you can’t cheat by sticking a commode on top of a storm drain and calling it a day.

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Re:San Francisco to Spend $1.7M to Build a Single Public Toilet by notch656a on Thursday October 20, 2022 @04:07PM (#33280015)
It's clear to me they're doing a lot else.
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