Religious group sues San Francisco over open-air urinal

Religious group sues San Francisco over open-air urinal

A religious alignment has filed a accusation adjoin the city-limits of San Francisco to abolish an amphitheater urinal it calls bedraggled and blue from a accepted park.

The Chinese Christian Union of San Francisco filed a civilian complaint endure anniversary ambitious the city-limits abolish the accurate annular urinal from the iconic Dolores Park.

The accumulation says the urinal, which is out in the accessible and buried alone with plants for privacy, "emanates abhorrent odors," ''has no hand-washing facilities" and "it's abhorrent to amenities and morals."

The accusation added alleges that the ability installed in February discriminates adjoin women and the disabled and exposes those who use it to "shame and embarrassment."

"The amphitheater urination aperture violates the aloofness of those who charge to use the bathroom but would be appropriate to betrayal their bodies and ache abashment and abasement of urinating in accessible view," it says.

The City-limits Attorney's appointment said in a account that it will avert adjoin the action and acicular out the 16-acre esplanade is acclaimed for its "counter culture, apparent sunbathers, pot credibility vendors, amazing city-limits views, and abundantly aweless 'Hunky Jesus' contest."

The appointment said association advocated for the facility, alleged a "pissoir" (piss-WAH), to stop humans from urinating on walls, bushes and sidewalks.

Religious group sues San Francisco over open-air urinal

"If I had to adumbrate the top 100 things in Dolores Esplanade acceptable to affront these plaintiffs, I wouldn't accept estimated that this would accomplish the cut," City-limits Attorney agent Matt Dorsey said in the statement.

The urinal is allotment of a $20 actor advance plan that now has put added than two dozen toilets in Dolores Esplanade forth with added upgrades.

San Francisco has a long, sometimes creative, history of ambidextrous with accessible urination. Endure summer, the city-limits corrective about 30 walls with a repellant acrylic that makes urine aerosol aback on the offender. In 2002, the city-limits added the accessible accomplished for the abomination up to $500, but that did little to avert the practice.

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