The Low Income Housing Institute plans to build street-facing public restrooms into a new apartment complex. Neighborhood groups have agitated for more toilets. st.news/3W1KzLi
@seattletimes Homeless drug addicts will bathe, camp, and do dope in them. Then you'll have to lock them and issue codes. Then they will get tired of telling and changing codes and just hang out of order signs on them. How many of my tax dollars are going to be wasted on this?
@seattletimes Who else finds this as a tremendous failure in local government? Sound Transit? Nope. University of Washington? Nope. City of Seattle? Nope. I'd like to see some Space Needle Thinking here to solve the problem rather than pawning it off to a non-profit.
@seattletimes Yes please. We should also consider novel designs. Like private urinal wall and public sinks. And maybe even squat toilets (hard to break, super easy to clean).
@seattletimes Street facing drug injection sites activists have pushed for.