Francesca Pastine <fpastine@gmail.com> 12:23 PM (5 hours ago)
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Dear Supervisor Ronen, et. al., My neighbor had a botched gallbladder surgery a month ago. He is very very sick. He has had multiple surgeries to put in stents and take out stents; he has had infections; he is in incredible pain because when bile touches organs it is excruciating. Their bedroom is in the front of the house. They have not been able to have a decent night sleep because all night the dogs at the encampment on 26th and Shotwell are barking; the people living there are yelling ‘shut up” all night; they then apparently hit the dogs and the dogs yelp in pain for hours. Since February 7, this unruly out-of-control filthy eye-sore encampment has been in front of our houses. The person in this encampment was kicked out of the Safe Sleeping Area and is now on the sidewalk across the street from it. Your assistant, Paul Monge, tried to sell us on the idea that tents will be in the Safe Sleeping Area not on our sidewalks. We knew from the start this was a lie and sure enough it was just that-- another broken promise from your office. I have been asking you since 2016 how is it ok to enable enormous encampments to flourish directly in front of peoples homes? I have been asking for six months why San Francisco has not been enforcing the ordinances on their website: https://sfdem.org/safe-sleeping-guidance yet they do enforce the CDC 'recommendations' on not removing tents. By the way, the people in the encampment at 26th and Shotwell move around all the time. For a while the encampment was abandoned leaving all their stuff on the corner, now they are back. They have many visitors coming and going. They are crowded with the day laborers at that corner and no one is wearing masks. Their activity demonstrates how ludicrous the CDC 'recommendations' are. But it is typical of your politics: it is not based on reality, it is based on ideology. I honestly don’t know how to make you understand that having huge encampments clogging our public sidewalks, attaching themselves to our houses, and being a complete and obvious nuisance to the residents in our community, causes REAL HARM. Honestly, what is wrong with you people? Francesca
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