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Create community-based solutions to address the large volume of trash that is dumped on the streets of the mission each day. Delibrate dumping and casual lttering creates an environment of social neglect. Yet, it would be a diservice to pose punitive action against dumpers/litterers as a "solution." That is why diplomatic solutions consisting of community action must be taken. As a college art teacher, artist and father of two young girls I want to feel relief from the predudice this neighborhood is subjected to. Pacific Heights would never allow such condictions. I know that I am the type of San Franciscan that you want to keep in your city. How can you address the needs of the "self-employed, creative industry, lower-middle class families" of San Francisco that give the city a vital portion of it’s personality ????
Jason Jagel
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June 19th, 2007 at 3:01 pm
This problem sums up some of the causes of problems in SF, though I doubt the writer realizes it.
First: Why not fine the illegal dumpers and litterers? This is another example of someone wanting to relieve the people who do this of their responsibility for doing it. Instead, he thinks the city (at taxpayers expense) should take care of the problem. Here’s a community based solution: Teach the people who live there not to litter and dump.
Second: No this littering and dumping does not happen in Pacific Heights. Do you suppose that is because the people who live there do not litter or dump illegally? That’s what I think. Yet this writer would have you believe thhey do not have this problem because they are rich.
So it is prejudice that causes the litter and dumping to appear in the streets of the Mission, according to this writer. No PEOPLE living in the Mission could possibly be responsible for the mess in their neighborhoods, is that it?