Evidently no longer content to flush public money down just any old toilet, the city of San Francisco is going to spend up to 1.7 million dollars to build a single toilet in a neighborhood plaza.
According to an online event schedule, city leaders are going to gather at the Noe Valley Town Square on Wednesday to announce a 1.7 million state budget win for the construction of a toilet. According to a new report by San Francisco Chronicle columnist Heather Knight, the proposed facility would only have one toilet in 150 feet.
It will take the Department of Public Works and the Recreation and Parks Department three years to build it.
The proposed million-dollar toilet explains why San Francisco is the most expensive city to build in. The process to install a single toilet in a San Francisco plaza that already has plumbing includes a maze of planning, permitting, reviews, and public outreach.
An architect needs to draw plans for the toilet and present them to the public. The Civic Design Review committee will be responsible for conducting a multi-phase review of the project. The committee evaluates each project's design, scale and massing for accessibility, safety and aesthetic merit, according to the arts commission. The review process makes sure that each project's design is appropriate to its context in the urban environment and that structures of the highest design quality reflect their civic stature.
The project will be subject to review before it is put out for bid according to the Chronicle. According to a statement from the Department of Public Works and the Department of Recreation and Parks, the public toilet will be built by union workers who will earn a living wage and benefits.
The going rate for a public bathroom was what the Recreation and Parks Department told the Assemblyman, he told the Chronicle. According to the city, the estimate is very rough.
The paper reported that Haney said he got $1.7 million. When it came to building a toilet, I didn't have to bring home less bacon. Someone doesn't need a half a toilet or a toilet- maybe some day.
San Francisco needs more public toilets because of its homeless and public-defecation crisis. The Guardian asked why San Francisco was covered in human feces. The old buses have been turned into showers and toilets by a non-profit.
San Francisco has a history of overspending. The city spent half a million dollars on new trash can prototypes last year because they weren't happy with the look of off-the-shelf cans.
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