For years the smell of urine and the occasional terd was part of my morning as I walked into the back of our company’s building. Now that the mission has moved from 6th and Front to its new location on River Street the problem disappeared overnight. Now the homeless have become your neighborhoods problem. This issue is tough, but one thing is for sure, the Boise homeless population is growing at a staggering rate. As for the public restrooms, there needs to be 24 hour public restrooms at the skatepark and one at the intersection of Capital and Main. (1000 people waiting for a cab + hotdogs and beer + no business open after 1:45am = peepee all over the parking lots/alleys/doorways of downtown.

“They’re usually pretty good kids, but they don’t have any place to go to use the restroom. ”

It would have been easy to blame the kids. Nice to see some recognition that most of the skateboarders are good kids and blame the city.