The city of San Francisco is really making a name for itself lately. “We are piloting it to see if we can discourage people from peeing at many of our hot spots”, he said, “Nobody wants to smell urine”.
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San Francisco might have come up with a solution for people leaving the bars late and night and looking to relieve themselves somewhere in the city. “We are trying different things to try to make San Francisco smell nice and look handsome”.
If the pilot program works, you can bet there will more walls that pee back in the Golden City.
Nuru went to 16th street to demonstrate the new paint. “Please respect San Francisco and seek relief in an appropriate place”, hang above some walls.
The Department of Public Works announced that it is building a Pit Stop in the Mission district right by one of the walls, which will remain open daily from 9 a.m.to 8 p.m. That’s why city officials are willing to spend a couple hundred dollars per wall to cover public areas with the Ultra Ever Dry paint made by a Florida chemical company.
The paint contains Ultra Ever-Dry, a substance that essentially coats an object to create a surface chemistry that causes a repellent force.
“We will send people to see, visually, if there are any wet signs to indicate urination has happened”, DPW director Mohammed Nuru told the Chronicle.
The product is used in Germany and it’s had some success there.
For the Department of Public Works, the results may well be worth the cost. Despite fines, ranging from $50-$500, public urination continues to be a consistent problem. According to the Chronicle, DPW has fielded 375 requests to remove urine only since January, accounting for 5 percent of all the requests it receives.
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The paint has proved to be effective in Europe.
