We West Oaklanders have got to pay close attention to the Mayoral campaign leading to the 11/4/14 voting. Our new Mayor's #1 PRIORITY SHOULD BE to clean up the 1.2 mile stretch from the Emeryville border to Grand Ave along San Pablo Avenue. As long as the candidate offers concrete plans for a place to house the "street people" so that unhealthy, drug addicted, mentally unbalanced, homeless people are not just littering San Pablo Ave and its side streets; and provides funding to keep this area clean, I'm pushing a drive (going door door) throughout West Oakland Neighbors, West Oakland Green Initiative (WOGI), West-Oak High School Athletic Booster Club for him or her to win; gotta make sure WHOMEVER is elected Mayor addresses THIS area of Oakland first and foremost.

Neighbor Lady, it's time to stop spamming SeeClickFix. If you have a specific issue report it; if you don't, this is not the appropriate place.

Anonymous, if you are not a City official or an employee of SeeClickFix, how DARE you tell me what place to take and what not/to do! The audacity.

Somebody's building a "house" out of pallets there now.

I would suggest it's rather audacious of you to hijack the whole site to promote your hobbyhorse. However worthy the cause - I too would love to see a rejuvenated San Pablo Avenue - each entry here deals with a specific issue, not with the November election.

Anonymous, govern yourself, not me! I will continue to bring awareness to the fact that this entire area of Oakland can and will become better by holding the new Mayor accountable, prior to him or her taking office.

If you cannot see the big picture, then you stay within the realm of YOUR hobbyhorse, my vision is vast.

Your vision appears vastly myopic, I am sorry to say.

Here's where the pallet house is going up.

And here's all the debris on the sidewalk - some of it erected to serve as sleeping quarters.

And a closeup of the same.

A group of us, who constantly and consistently use SCF to clean up the illegal dumping, feces on the sidewalk, graffiti plaguing West Oakland, are meeting together for coffee to discuss strategies including having Channel 2 produce a segment about the horrors at the park on 32nd & San Pablo; and having the Mayoral hopefuls table our issues: the fact that people brag about leaving their neighborhoods//homes and come to our area to dump couches & other large items, the shopping cart society, the disproportionate amount of so-called helping organizations infesting the 1.2 mile stretch along San Pablo. You are welcome to be a part of the solution.

To the Anonymous Guest - shame on you for lecturing the people who work hard to improve the neighborhood. Your comments are trite and unwelcome.

To the West Oakland Neighbor Lady - we all applaud your courage, dedication and we support you! I would like to join your group.

To All - I just received the following email from Patricia Rose / Neighborhood Services Coordinator:
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I am following up with the Public Works Supervisor assigned to this issue. When I receive feedback, I will let you know.

Respectfully,

Patricia Rose
Neighborhood Services Coordinator
Neighborhood Services Division
City of Oakland
Oakland Police Department
(510) 238-6822
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From: Rose, Patricia
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2014 10:55 AM
To: English, Dexter
Cc: Community Policing Beat 12
Subject: FW: Homeless Encampment was just reported by one of your neighbors

Hi Dexter,

I received this complaint below regarding an encampment at 620 42nd Street. It has been previously reported to Public Works and Operation Dignity. I was informed by Jason at Public Works Call Center that you are the Supervisor for this issue. Can you let me know the status? The citizen is requesting assistance in this matter.

Please see below

Thank you,

Patricia Rose
Neighborhood Services Coordinator
Neighborhood Services Division
City of Oakland
Oakland Police Department
(510) 238-6822

Everyone agrees about improving the neighborhood. Inserting your self-promoting advertisement on every issue is a distraction from that goal.

IG, thanks for the encouraging words. I, in no way, am attempting any "propaganda" or "self-promotion" as Anonymous suggests, and have absolutely no idea who should be voted in as our new Mayor. However, I do think this is the prime opportunity to bring our plight to a very large audience by making the Mayoral hopefuls weigh in as to how they will be rectifying this horrible problem of human blight in West Oakland. I had to go into work yesterday, and was unable to attend the neighborhood meeting but would love to get together and brainstorm with some folks, it's too ridiculous and disgusting around here (I live on 31st & Market) and have had people tell me they've changed their minds about visiting me due to what they've seen around the neighborhood. And maybe we could meet with Operation Dignity so that they can be made aware of the severity of the homeless encampments and other horrors that we who live here have to drive all day/everyday.

However much I may sympathize with your goals, there are better ways to achieve them than by hijacking a thread about a very specific topic.

Has the city checked to see their building permits?

Do you really mean when will code enforcement show up.

I think we all know that "Code Enforcement" only exists in Harry Potter novels.

Thank you for ruining Harry Potter for me. But I have to say code enforcement is magically indifferent.