I'm gonna go take a $100,000 shiat there.

I'll go do it tomorrow, and maybe take pics for all you TFers. Of the bathroom of course, not of my deposit.

Somebody will still clog it up.

"It was funded by the transient occupancy tax"

Beach bums on benches taxed?

after the ribbon was cut, this man disappeared:

$593,000??!?!?!!?!?!

For a bathroom with less than 10 stalls?!?!!?!?!?!

Holy shiat!

I'm going to have to pee in there this weekend. I thought that our city finances were going down the crapper, but this is ridiculous.

Bonzo_1116:

I thought that our city finances were going down the crapper, but this is ridiculous.

It's not so much that they're going down the crapper as they're going INTO the crapper.

Well, if you're going to have homeless people I guess it's either this or let them shiat all over your city. Still seems mighty expensive.

RabidSquirrel

For $593,000 it should be going into THE crapper.

watchmesuck: For $593,000 it should be going into THE crapper.

Or maybe it should be GOING into the crapper.

...nope, that doesn't work as well as the others.

Hey, going down or going into the crapper--what does it matter? The San Diego budget has been circling the bowl for years. It just won't go down no matter how many times they flush.

Bonzo_1116:

Hey, going down or going into the crapper--what does it matter? The San Diego budget has been circling the bowl for years. It just won't go down no matter how many times they flush.

You win.

HAH. way to spend tax dollars idiots. especially with all the scandal with the mayor and budgets, etc. i love sd, but it needs to get its house in order..

It's probably $60,000 for the building and $533,000 for the property.

$593,000 breakdown:

$150,000 for the land
$93,000 for building construction, material, labor, etc
$100,000 for administrative fees
$100,000 for kickbacks
$100,000 for booze & hookers
$50,000 for misc/other

/back to school

I liked the link to video on the TV Stations Website: "La Jolla Dumps Nearly $600K In New Bathroom"

Well, in our town, the local paper screams how the roads here are "a haven for speeders" (big fat lie, drivers here are pussies) and they need to hire more cops with radar guns to reduce the carnage. The cops here LIE about what they see on their radar guns to make the quotas and the chief budgets 30% of their time just to show up at traffic court so it's useless trying to fight tickets.

At least a half-million-dollar crapper won't give you bullshiat speeding tickets, although I'd rather the city use the money to fund public transit so I won't have to drive everywhere.

The saddest thing of all is, you pay about that much for less than a studio apartment nearby in La Jolla.

I'm a La Jolla resident, but only cuz I got lucky.

500,000??!?? Are there pre paid hookers (actual women types) in it or something?

are they going to put those $9000 meters outside?

8000000 visitors to the beach area this thing serves a year, if the thing works for 10 years without a major facelift, it's a justifiable price.

Its not like this is as big of waste as it might appear. It will all be worth it for the tourist revenue that this part of the city creates. And it's a bit deceiving to say its just a bathroom since it has a changing room and showers. It's a popular beach break for surfers and every stretch of beach in SD county has a comparable facility. It just so happens that La Jolla has the nicest facility (and is one of the most expensive areas in the US).

GreenSlime: $150,000 for the land


This is La Jolla we're talking about. You could put up a lamp post with $150K of property.

Wow. What a deal.

It was funded by the transient occupancy tax,

They are taxing the homeless? Shame on them.

I'm going straight there to spread doo-doo all over the walls.

Putting cost aside for a moment, who holds a ribbon-cutting for a freakin' bathroom?! Furthermore, who considers a public toilet to be "infrastructure"

/ votes to add a "California" tag to the list

For $593,000 the gold plated toilets better wipe my ass for me.

$593,000 will buy you an enormous house here in Sugar Land. ...stupid California land price and $150,000 lamp posts...

This new facility should be popular with the "boys" after hours. Did they predrill glory holes?

Wow i miss San Diego so much. What a great city. Surfing was great.

/got driven out by housing costs..
//$500,000 for a 2 bedroom shack. 1100 sq feet. no yard.

I think that's what they should replace Justice Souter's house with when they claim "eminent domain" on it.

/clearly I have no idea how to use "eminent domain" as a verb

I like how the article stated it so matter-of-factly, as though all outdoor, cement sh@tters are supposed to cost a half million dollars.

Last seen travelling
south on Interstate 5
at a high rate of speed

If you guys aren't familiar with San Diego too much, lemme break it down for you. La Jolla is only technically a part of the city. They really really like to pretend that they're a separate city, they go as far as writing it on their stationery and having town council meetings and such. The reason it's so important to them is that they're the second richest local neighborhood, and the richest in the metro area. The spend 600,000 dollars on everything they ever do, it helps them to achieve a feeling of disconnect from the town they don't want to be in.

Everyone else in SD hates La Jollans. For further reasons, let's start with the cross on Mt. Soledad and the La Jolla town council vote to remove the sea lions from a beach zoned for La Jolla children, thus eliminating the only spot in the continental US where humans can get so close to sea lions.

/hopes the La Jollans blow out their insides with too much chicken skin.

Scoats
I liked the link to video on the TV Stations Website: "La Jolla Dumps Nearly $600K In New Bathroom"

That is classic!

The cost of living is insane in California

I think that's what they should replace Justice Souter's house with when they claim "eminent domain" on it.

Congress is already moving to restrict eminent domain, as a so-called 'check on an out-of-control judiciary' (the shiat runs deep), so he probably doesn't have to worry too much.

The cost of living is insane in California.

Blame Prop 13...

I could get almost 14 mecha's for that price, I'd hate to run into that gang in a dark alley.

>?????

You can't blame a limitation of property taxes for the high cost of living in CA. The reason would be, uh, you know, SUPPLY AND DEMAND......

Oh yeah, that and you don't have to shovel snow out of your driveway unless you live in the mountains.

Sounds like someone just wants to see us Californians get screwed on property taxes like the rest of the country.

/loves prop 13

I never said it was the only reason, let me rephrase:

Blame Prop 13 and some other stuff

EmbodiedHate

"if the thing works for 10 years without a major facelift, it's a justifiable price"

Not even that justifies the price. Its a masonry block building, maybe ~2000 SF, if that. It has no special finishes or features. So the cost is $296 a square foot is out of hand. At most is should have cost $300,000 even if the drainage, water, and parking were an issue.

/Somebody got paid.

"Not even that justifies the price. Its a masonry block building, maybe ~2000 SF, if that. It has no special finishes or features. So the cost is $296 a square foot is out of hand. At most is should have cost $300,000 even if the drainage, water, and parking were an issue."

Don't forget the ridiculous "prevailing wage" laws that require, essentially, union scale be (over)paid to those who work on the project. You or I could get the same building built for much less cost.

Nothing like giving away taxpayer money, huh?

(You can see seals at La Jolla.)
(Sorry.)

Don't forget the ridiculous "prevailing wage"

What this means in Cali is that the GC on a public project picks up illegal laborers, pays then $27.50hr (billing out at a 175% mark-up), takes them to cash their checks, and pockets all but $7hr.

Gov't is just another word for fraud.

ADA adds to the expense too. They could have built 24 stalls in the same amount of space, but thanks to ADA it has to be big enough to acommodate a sea lion that wants to come in off the beach and take a leak.

It's great that slideshows enable more pictures to illustrate the story, but how farking necessary is this?

A restroom for $593,000? Amateurs! Here in Winnipeg it was decided to build a restaurant in the middle of a bridge. The cost to put a washroom there (including plumbing, electricity, heating, etc.) was over $1,000,000 which even in Canadian funds tops this amount. I don't know if the number of stalls has ever been reported but I suspect it's probably 4 stalls maximum.

I believe the restaurant was to finally open today, having been vacant for over a year as the city tried to find someone crazy (or rich) enough to open something there. Y'see, unfortunately the space has a few flaws some people didn't consider when planning was made. First, the bridge itself has 2 separate 2-lane spans for cars, and a separate span for pedestrians. The restaurant is on the pedestrian span which by design is barely wide enough for a car. Trying and get supplies to the place is difficult at best. Next, the plumbing lines needed to be heated because of course Winnipeg is a little chilly in the winter (-40F days not uncommon) and the last thing anyone needs is for the pipes to freeze solid and crack. And on the subject of weather, who wants to walk the several hundred feet to the middle of a bridge in anything but the most comfortable of weather? As most Winnipeggers will tell you, the number of comfortable days in Winnipeg typically run in the low double digits!

/not from the Tourist Winnipeg department...

The expense of property in La Jolla is three time more than metro San Diego. Doesnt surprise me at all that this crapper was that expensive.

Long live the seals at Childrens Beach.