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Just months after their installation, the city plans to remove a series of benches and planters it placed along Taylor Street in the Tenderloin, “due to budgetary constraints around the costs of future maintenance,” according to Municipal Transportation Agency spokesperson Michael Roccaforte.

Though the project is not fully complete, Roccaforte said in a statement that the city could not fund the cleaning, repairs, and other maintenance of the benches and planters. Much of it will be dismantled, though Roccaforte did not confirm when.

For now, the soon-to-be-r

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