New Modular Bathroom Just Dropped in Precita Park, at Tiny Fraction of the Cost of $1.7 Million Noe Valley Toilet

"We all remember when the shit hit the fan over a $1.7 million estimate for installing a public toilet in Noe Valley Town Square, which released a stream of outrage over profligate SF City Hall spending that even the national press got their intestines in a bundle over. Governor Gavin Newsom was so pissed that he yanked the state funding for the project unless the SF Board of Supervisors found a way to make the bathroom cheaper."

"But relief is on the way, because last year the SF Rec and Parks Department announced that their next public park toilet scheduled to be placed in Bernal Heights' Precita Park would only cost $262,000 total. That is just 15%, or barely one-seventh, of the cost of the notorious original $1.7 million estimate for the Noe Valley bathroom. Well, that new Precita Park modular bathroom was just literally plopped into the park this past Thursday, January 8."

San Francisco placed a prefabricated single-stall modular restroom in Bernal Heights' Precita Park for a total cost of $262,000. The unit was delivered on January 8 and still requires plumbing hookups before becoming operational. The restroom is all-gender accessible and will feature an exterior drinking fountain, a trash receptacle, and new landscaping around the unit. The Precita Park installation comes after outrage over a $1.7 million estimate for a Noe Valley public toilet, which led Governor Gavin Newsom to threaten withdrawal of state funding unless a cheaper option was found. Supervisors previously approved a $300,000 modular toilet when a Nevada manufacturer donated the structure.

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