Oh NIMBY neighbors.  Look, I can totally appreciate how much it sucks to have to clean up a mess you didn’t make.  For example, someone takes a fat shit on my front steps once a month.  But, you know, I made a choice to live in a city and, more specifically, a neighborhood not known for being suburbs-meets-city livin’.  Sometimes people lack an understanding of the street art code of conduct.  Mourn, repaint, and move on.

From the Safe Clean Green mailing list:

New landscaping at 18th & Dolores gets defaced

For those of us who were involved in making happen or have been appreciating the new landscaping at the corner of 18th and Dolores (Thank you Rec&Park for getting it done!), it was upsetting to learn that last Saturday night three taggers defaced it with their black, red and white “urine spots.” (let’s call this crap what it is!)

PURE VANDALISM!

Removing the graffiti correctly, i.e., “seamlessly,” is no simple task on surfaces like this (stained pressure-treated wood). The boneheads who did this perhaps didn’t realize—or more likely, didn’t care—that what took them all of a minute each to do may take 2-3 hours for someone else to undo.

In my dreams I imagined an enlightened judge sentencing each one to being chained to the adjacent lamp post for a day, forced to wear a breadboard announcing I’M THE BONEHEAD WHO DID THIS, then after each has had their day in the limelight, have them all come together and remove all trace of their handiwork. It was a most satisfying dream. And then I woke up …

As you can see from this postage stamp, there’s going to be a parklett on 22nd @ Mission

Look at this: now you have a nice grassy surface to puke up that pint of tequila from Latin American Club.  I kid.  See, I don’t own a car and am not a whiny NIMBY, so I’m all for this.  It’ll be nice to see grass and trees and flowers and dog shit not beneath my feet while walking around the city, as opposed to the oil stains and crappy pavement we get now.

From Pavement to Parks:

The 22nd Street Parklet will pilot more create use of the parking lane at a location in the Mission where sidewalks are narrow and pedestrian activity high. This pilot application will explore the idea of modularity, allowing for a “kit of parts” to be developed for possible future installations. The design has been developed free of charge to the City by ReBar Group.

Other cities are not like this.  Only in San Francisco can you see more classic cars than crackheads on a daily basis.  And the owner’s willingness to park these badboys all over the city?  Inspiring.  A mere 21 hours previously, I watched a pimp teach a lady how to be a prostitute in this very location.  Now rests 2000 pounds of yellow badassery.

Nuzz knows what’s up.