Francesca Pastine <fpastine@gmail.com>
1:07 PM (9 minutes ago)
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Dear Politicians and Bureaucrats, This weekend, it will be the third month since this encampment took root on Shotwell Street at 26th Street and across the street from the Safe Sleeping Area at 1515 South Van Ness. For three months, I have put in countless hours writing letters, organizing neighbors, reporting to 311, the SPCA, the Mayor's office, and Hillary Ronen on the condition of the encampment. This is the culmination of all that work:
(the encampment is partly obscured by bushes)
-The encampments extends across three property lines;
-it has blocked the entire sidewalk for months;
-my garden wall is now used as a latrine;
- There are families with children living with this within feet of this encampments;
-their dogs bark day and night and viciously lunge at people when they get too near;
-they regularly deal and do drugs;
-this encampment is a direct result of the Dolores Community Center kicking out its unruly residents from the SSA;
-the woman in this encampment screams at me when I leave my house;
-I have lived in this neighborhood since 1994. This is the first time I am afraid to leave my house in all that time;
-if something happens to me or my property, you are accountable;
-I have given up my art practice because my studio is in my garage and I cannot focus anymore when I am at home. I also started an art gallery in September, this situation takes time from me successfully operating this new business.
I have been asking my supervisor, the mayor, the police, and any other city official I can contact: HOW IS THIS OK?????
The silence I have received in the face of this question says it all: IT IS NOT OK.
Sincerely,
Francesca Pastine
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