Re:Westfield’s San Francisco Centre Mall Lost 46% of Its Sto...
by simoncion on Saturday June 17, 2023 @05:21PM
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Prop 47 is from 2014, ~9 years ago.
Sit/lie in SF is from 2010, ~13 years ago.
SF has been in a commercial decline for a whole bunch of reasons.
Despite that, front-door bouncers have continued to be -as far as I could tell, as a customer of these establishments- more-or-less totally effective at keeping hobos out.
This issue is a new issue --it's not decades long. It's only become an issue since intersection of prop 47 with SF governance. This is why companies are only beginning to pull out now.
Unbelievably, SF already had loitering and vagrancy laws on the books, but the panhandle had to have a new more specific ordinance to address druggies blocking doorway entrances etc (the sit/lie law), of course, in typical fashion, it could only be enforced after a written warning and after a second it became a misdemeanor...
It's just easier and better to find a place that's friendlier to business.