A San Francisco commissioner has been identified as behind the controversial “doom cycle” walking tour, prompting him to resign with a scathing letter criticizing the city’s “deplorable” conditions and “rampant crime.” progressive.
Alex Ludlum, a member of the city’s Community Infrastructure and Investment Commission, initially announced anonymously the $30 tour, which has since been cancelled.
But he was identified as the organizer after refund notices included his email address, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
He confirmed this Monday when he resigned from his position in a letter to Mayor London Breed, while attacking the “wide-ranging policies of the city that allow an organized and malicious element to thrive in San Francisco.”
“I am sorry that my attempt to draw attention to the deplorable street conditions and rampant crime in my neighborhood has been misconstrued as a mockery of the suffering people,” Ludlum wrote in the letter obtained by the Chronicle.
Alex Ludlum, the San Francisco land use commissioner who organized the controversial “doom loop” tour, resigned after his identity was revealed and the event drew national attention.sfocii.org
“Satire is a bad way to address the serious problems we face as a city.”
In stepping down, he vowed to give “full support” to help address the “serious issues” his announced tour said would address.
“Uncontrolled drug trafficking is clearly the root of our current problems. … The entire city center will suffer until the markets close,” he wrote.
A homeless encampment on the street as Celebrate Tenderloin Tour participants walk the area.David G. McIntyre
Ludlum had canceled the Aug. 26 event less than 24 hours before it was supposed to headline the tour of the City Hall, Mid-Market, Union Square and Tenderloin districts.
Curious locals and tourists who signed up for the sold-out $30 tour were promised an up-close-and-personal experience of San Francisco as “the paragon of urban decay” with a tour of “open-air drug markets.” free” and empty places. office spaces.
Ludlum is also vice president of real estate investment firm SPI Holdings and co-founder of the SoMa West Community Benefits District.
Breed named him to the commission in March 2022 and reappointed him in November. By early Tuesday, the photograph and biography of him had been removed from the commission’s page.
Participants in the Celebrate Tenderloin Tour walk through the heart of the Tenderloin District at Turk and Hyde streets in San Francisco on Saturday.David G. McIntyre
San Francisco Board of Supervisors Chairman Aaron Peskin confirmed to local media Monday that he spoke with Ludlum, who “basically said he was joking, but it got out of hand.”
Breed spokesman Jeff Creta, however, said that “the decision to organize and publicize the tour was a mistake and a profound misjudgment.”
“We work every day to address the city’s challenges, and our focus continues to be getting the job done to move the city forward,” Creta said.
Del Seymour, nicknamed the mayor of the Tenderloin District, speaks to participants of the Celebrate Tenderloin Tour outside San Francisco City Hall on Saturday.David G. McIntyre
With Ludlum not showing up for Saturday’s doom loop tour, an opposition tour led by community activist Del Seymour led about 70 locals and visitors on a two-mile “positive walk.”
While pointing out all the community services available in the area, the tour passed numerous homeless encampments and “zombies” addicted to fentanyl and other drugs.
A homeless man washes his feet on the sidewalk as Celebrate Tenderloin tour participants walk through the Tenderloin District.David G. McIntyre
Seymour said he was disappointed by Ludlum’s “meanness” in organizing the Doom Loop tour.
“Why would anyone encourage something as ridiculous as that?” Seymour told the Post after learning of Ludlum’s resignation.
“I think it did a good thing because it highlighted that there are some positive things happening in the Tenderloin, but we still have people here hurting themselves. We are not going to accept this idly.”
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