Voters whose neighborhoods will be most directly impacted by a controversial sit/lie law rejected the ballot measure, the SF Appeal reported.

San Francisco voters last week approved Measure L, banning people from sitting and lying on sidewalks between 7 a.m. and 11 p.m. Police will be able to use the new law to chase young loafers, homeless people and guests of residential hotels off city sidewalks by ordering them to stand up or face fines and jail time.

The measure had been championed by the San Francisco Chronicle, Mayor Gavin Newsom, Police Chief George Gascón and the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce.

"Sit/Lie fared poorly in most voting precincts where one can actually find homeless people sitting on the street," the online newspaper reported.

Voters in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood, which was the poster child of the Sit/Lie campaign, rejected the measure, the Appeal reported.

"So where did Sit/Lie do well? The measure's margin of victory citywide was 23,000 votes, which is exactly the sum total of the winning margins Measure L enjoyed in supervisorial Districts 2 (Marina/Cow Hollow, Pacific Heights, Seacliff), 4 (Sunset/Parkside) and 7 (West of Twin Peaks, Ingleside Terrace, St. Francis Wood). In other words, in the San Francisco neighborhoods with a dearth of people using the sidewalks as a futon, Sit/Lie killed."