SF neighborhood's 'trash lake' to be cleaned up after years of complaints from residents

[@epicvission]

google maps shows this site as a lake 🤣

[@dianethulin1700]

Boy I had a friend who lived on this property about 30 years ago in the building that was torn down. It was super cool back then!

[@PDogB]

Sad that it takes so long to clean up the site, including having to sue to make anything change. Meanwhile it sits and degrades to a toxic level.

[@ydne]

You couldn't trust the owners to not leave it an abandoned hazard for years. However, you believe you can trust them to develop and keep a project, over twice the height of the rest of the neighborhood, for the perceivable future? Something seems very wrong with this.

[@buffbuffy99]

Yeah there is money being laundered through this “project”.

[@CBlargh]

They said it was a new development group. I'm assuming that means the ownership has changed.

[@davidsyes5970]

8-storey housing - THERE?? NO WAY. Nobody should be redeveloping that former automotive pit. I suspect oil and other fluids dumped over the decades since the Post-War Auto boom are the green-sheet cause I saw over the past 1.5 years, now mostly black. It definitely was an automotive shop and later junk pit or car parts stack-up pit. I used to walk by it almost daily for months in early 2013. There is deadly rebar sticking up, obscured by water. Anyone swimming or leaping or diving WILL DIE. Two grids of it, one to either side of the metal-covered ramp. Walking onnthe ramp could even be deadly since loss of footing and directional conteol on falling means possibly falling onto the grids of rebar. The up-thrusted sidewalk should be an extreme warning of complete undermine, given that another pit is to the west of it. Yes, the "lake" (or pond) also exists on the opposite side of the housing to the west. I suspect Bay water pressure or a busted sewer to be part of the problem. I thought the couple-of-months-ago underground street work from 10th street to 5th Street along Folsom may have been related to dealing with that toxic sludge slough of automotive history, since, coincidentally, the lit's level ddropped a little, maybe 2 or 3 feet. But, since rain over the recent 2 weeks, the pit water leve rose again. Nobody responsible would dare rehab that site for purposes of housing. It should be unethical, immoral, and loaded with liability and culpability a risk. It needs to be declared off limits, fenced, drained, slabbed-over, NEVER WVER DEVELOPED for 100 years minimum, and left open and ventilated like other SF gas stations permanently closed. Like at 4th and Folsom atop the Muni station at Yerba Buena Gardens/Moscone. Like some pits in the Noe Valley/Valencia/Mission Districts. Probably, the nearby former Shell Station that was closed, de-branded, and its underground storage tanks periodically checked may be connected, but, who knows? The City needs to disallow any habitable development there. Besides, 8 storeys of anything biz or housing there would destroy the south-looking view of anyone not living in a 20-storey building. Unfortunately, in SF, based on a report maybe 10 hears ago, anything less than 9-12 storeys is generally unprofitable for most builders.

[@shazmosushi]

@@davidsyes5970 do you really believe the block is uninhabitable? I can imagine the developers are incentived to not look into any actual contamination if they can avoid it.

[@davidsyes5970]

@@shazmosushi The wet area is not safe, at the very least. The old KGO 810 radio station used to have a Dr. Bill Wattenberg who went on snd on about people talking about "vernal ponds" to stop a patch of kand being redeveloped. As to that lit, if thr previous would-be developers walked away, they must have sensed extremely high financial risk or moral hazard, and cut their losses. Imagine living in a new building atop a miasma pit of >80 years of industrial/automotive dumping (oh, wait, that could be SOMA to SSF, lolll) , breathing that stuff as gas. The people nearest it already complain of allergies, illnesses, flies, mosquitoes, etc. I've not seen more than one homeless/unhoused person sleep bear that. Tho, some don't even want to accept a shelter. But, I bet they'll avoid that pit at all costs unless looking to land on impailing rebar or risk become a C.H.U.D. or a C.H.O.D (O, for over-ground).

[@thegoldengatesound]

They don’t like community pools in SOMA? whatever

[@yliannamarie403]

The sight is cursed!

[@GKP999]

2 years! This is how inefficient tbe SF government is. There should be a law that require empty lots be turned into a greenery while development is pending.

[@carlosaranda7749]

Put some largemouth bass in there

[@whoknowswhocares885]

It only took two years of complaints and the next time it gets cleaned will be in another 4 years

[@PaulHolmanIII]

On the way?!

[@chefjameso]

why doesn't the city buy it and build a 1000-bed mental health, drug rehab ?

[@Nonenone23]

So what

[@deesnoots]

Lake Merritt had a cousin?

[@Greenliight]

This is lake Merritt and its cousins love child

[@dimi_sf]

Gross!

[@danasmith858]

Fixing the property so squatters will move in

[@jasonlarsen3515]

Are the hobos offering to clean it up as a thank you for all the free services they get in return for nothing?

[@jayo9750]

Why dont u go clean it

[@jasonlarsen3515]

@ why can’t the people who live off tax payer funds 1 not trash the place 2 help clean up in extended for all the free things. How many hobos have you taken in your home?

[@jayo9750]

@@jasonlarsen3515 im not the complaining. If city life bothers you move to the suburbs

[@jasonlarsen3515]

@@jayo9750 why did you comment?

[@ACJOSO]

THE WHOLE CITY OF SAN FRAN IS LIKE THIS!!!!