Plans for a $1 million public toilet are raising a stink in Los Angeles, where locals say the cash-strapped city is flushing money down the drain.

Officials last year approved a scheme to build a bathroom with two stalls at the entrance to the city’s popular Runyon Canyon hiking trail at a cost of $960,000.

But people living nearby say the eye-watering price tag seems almost corrupt in a city that had to slash its fire department budget last year.

It is “an epic waste of money,” park neighbor Shira Scott Astrof told the local ABC affiliate.

Scott Weil of the Runyon Canyon Guardians, an action group of nearby residents, said he had found a supplier who would fit the same two-stall unit for half the price.

“How does a city that is broke… have $500,000 extra dollars?” he said.

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