text:  If you want to put a potted plant on the sidewalk, you got to get a permit. But if you want to pitch a tent and shoot heroin and defecate on the sidewalk all at the same time, if you want, you don't need any kind of approval at all. Why would the city respond this way? Like, why would you do that? I mean, why would you just take the win? I mean, if you're a politician.