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During debate over the proposed 5M project, which could erect 1,200 or more residential units via a series of high-rises on the current SOMA site of the Chronicle building, the question of how to mitigate the influx of dogs — and their excrement — was broached. Planning Commissioner Mike Antonini was dismissive of this concern, leading to, perhaps, this city's first dogshit analysis.
"Commissioner Antonini's remark ... that dog waste 'is not worth evaluating in an [Environmental Impact Report]' could not have been more blind to real life environmental impacts of new development," reads the Nov. 21 letter to the Planning Commission from the Yerba Buena Neighborhood Consortium. "Perhaps when he 'steps in it' someday he may reconsider."
What follows is a detailed prediction of how much dog waste may soon befoul SOMA depending upon three different development scenarios. Assuming 10 percent of residents in the forthcoming towers have dogs — "based on other typical large SOMA projects" per the letter — and figuring the average dog produces three-quarters of a pound of feces per day — an amount postulated by Dr. Stanley Coren in Psychology Today and confirmed to SF Weekly by animal care and control professionals as reasonable — neighborhood dwellers could be sidestepping between 10 and 16.5 tons of dogshit per year.
Charts were included.
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