Are policies that let the homeless use downtowns as public urinals part of the Curley Effect?

This is an absurd story, but it sparked two thoughts.

//he area surrounding King County Superior Court includes a homeless shelter and other social-services organizations and has become an “unsanitary and potentially frightening” scene — one “that reeks of urine and excrement” — according to an article in the Seattle Times. Desperate for help with the disgusting environment, two of the court’s judges have asked the city to please power-wash the poop-covered sidewalks. That seems like a pretty reasonable request, but apparently, one councilman is worried that doing so might be a form of microaggression. According to the Times, Councilmember Larry Gossett “said he didn’t like the idea of power-washing the sidewalks because it brought back images of the use of hoses against civil-rights activists.”//

First, Seattle has this problem also???

I've been laughing about the fact that San Francisco has a human excrement map and I've known that downtown LA smells like a urinal, but if Seattle has the same problem, I have to start wondering about how common this problem is for Democrat-controlled urban areas.

Second, why is this not a problem for Fresno.  I've never seen or smelled any indication of this problem for poor, hot, rainless Fresno. What magic does Fresno have that LA, San Francisco and Seattle don't have?

Could it be that Fresno is a middle-class city that generally elects Republicans?  And as such, could it be that mayor's office includes middle-class sensibilities among the values that it wants to serve?

So, could the indifference of large, democrat-controlled cities to public sanitation issues simply be another example of the Curley Effect in operation?