Classic! Liberals RULE that putting planters on sidewalks to prevent tent camps violates city code!

In the Democrat-ruled shithole of San Fran, tent camps block sidewalks everywhere.  Since the city refuses to clear the camps (except during the recent APEC conference!), residents of one nice neighborhood spent thousands of their own dollars to put heavy steel planters on the sidewalks to block the tents.

Of course you already guessed what happened next, right?

Sure: the moronic socialist Dems who rule the once-lovely city ordered the residents to remove the planters!  Cuz blocking sidewalks violates city code!  But somehow tents blocking sidewalks don't violate code, eh?  The rulers also cite the "Americans with Disabilities Act" as ordering sidewalks be kept clear--but the city NEVER enforces that against tent camps:

Short answer is that the Democrat rulers decide whether to enforce the code or ignore violations for politically-favored groups.   Two sets of laws, as always under Democrat rule.

Residents said folks in the tent camps started fires, vandalized property and engaged in drug activity.  City rulers shrugged.  After years of the city doing nothing, residents said the planters were mostly successful in deterring homeless encampments.  And the Dems rulers could NOT tolerate that!   

Members of the homeless industry have bashed the use of planters to deter homeless encampments as “hostile architecture.”  And we just can't tolerate "hostile architecture," right?

Other residents have installed loudspeakers to get the campers to go somewhere else.  City rulers have responded by citing violations of noise ordinances.

A city spokes-lackey said the city is trying to determine who actually owns the Larch Street planters so they can issue tickets.

Once the planters are removed, the spokes-lackey said the city would "explore ways to make the street safer for housed and unhoused residents."  This is classic bureau-babble.  Baffle-gab, designed to make dumb residents believe the city will somehow reverse course and help residents.  Of course that's bullshit, but Democrats believe it.

Spokeswhore say "We want to figure out from the neighbors what the issue is there.”  Yeah, sure.  Cuz the rulers don't have the faintest idea what the problem is now, eh?Peddle that bullshit somewhere else.

Source.

https://sfstandard.com/2023/11/17/san-francisco-homeless-planter-war-alley/