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Let’s take down all of the hanging flower baskets and use the resources to make our neighborhood safe. I’ve noticed that all of the flowers in the Civic Center and around City Hall look healthy and fresh - but along 3rd Street especially between Folsom & Townsend - they are quickly drying out, many have dead spots and trash in them. Maybe the city has already cut back on maintaining them. The real priority for lower Rincon Hill/Eastern SOMA should be protection. My friend’s car was broken into two weeks ago, one of my neighbors was raped and a guy down the hall is moving out because he was mugged - all three of these incidents have happened around Stillman Alley.
Obviously I can’t accuse anyone directly but there are quite a few homeless people living on Stillman & Perry as well as boisterous drug addicts on 3rd & Stillman.
Anyone walking around the area on a Saturday or Sunday can see all of the broken glass to know there is a problem with theft here that needs to be addressed.
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October 26th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
I have to agree that on a scale of one to ten, rape, theft, assault and homelessness are probably of greater concern to our city’s residents than flower baskets. On the other hand, I applaud the attempts to beautify and greenify (is that a word?) SF by adding street trees and hanging flower baskets. Of course if the new greenery is not maintained and allowed to die then the net result is worse than having no plantings at all.
How about have an “Adopt a tree” or “Adopt a flower basket” or some such program? I am one of the many “Adopt a Street” members and I take care of painting over graffiti in my immediate area. Maybe the city could do the same thing for maintaining street plantings. Where I live (22nd and Folsom) we don’t have hanging flower baskets, but if we did, I would be delighted to water them on a regular basis. Perhaps there are people in the neighborhoods where plantings already exist where who would adopt them if such a program existed.
Again, for society as a whole we need to address the social ills of crime and homelessness, but beautifying the city is important too.