Thank you for robo-signing this request I am sorry that [y]our byzantine rules, that hopefully will be abolished soon, prevent you (City of Oakland) from communicating directly with your citizens. If only you could speak, but I know you cannot. They have muted you, those dumb unnecessary rules. Please fight the powers that be, and demand that they let you reach out and work with the community - things would be so much more effective if you [y]ou could talk with us.

here is my side view of the "Sofa Tree."

Hey, take is easy with applying blame to the burners. This is just your standard jackA$$ dumping a bunch of crap on the street in Oakland. It is deplorable that people don't care and just dump their trash like this.

I have heard that some other cities place dumpsters for public use and this allows folks to bring the stuff they would normally dump on the street to designated dump sites. Not sure if it would help, it seems that there is no way to easily punish these jerks.

Put up fake cameras? Invest in a simple sign that states the area is being video recorded?

But that is not from burning man. It would be covered in a fine beige dust if it was. So please don't assume this is burning man stuff. In general, burners are better than that. They just re-donate the couches to goodwill after they are done with them
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This has been here at least a week, and the piles are just growing, on both sides of the street. I get a ticket on Sundays if I park there during "street sweeping" hours, but no actual street sweeping ever seems to happen, for some reason - budget cuts? Maybe our new garbage contractor can take the opportunity to show how eager they are by getting out there and doing something about all this junk.

Chill out man, trying to add some humor to this tragic situation, no blame to burners implied here; nor did I so state that this is FROM Burning man. -The style of the sofa tree visually presented as an odd art project with adjacent baby dolls and other such things, unique among the dumpsters-jerks to grow sofas on poles. This has been going on for years here, and we are mad as hell and not interested in taking it anymore. Few if any of the criminals doing it have been caught, it is unabated, the city on occasion makes false statements about cleaning it up, and this culminated with an abandoned camper that apparently led to a partial city block going up in a firestorm, blowing out the underground gas lines at Stone and San Leandro ... Enough is enough. Come tour if you do not believe

Councilmember Desley Brooks and I think Larry Reid put dumpsters at chronic dump spots in their districts for a short time. They were filled within hours with bulky waste like this. People who can't afford to hire a city job truck and who don't qualify for an annual bulky waste pick-up, which a lot of folks don't, need a way to responsibly dipose of this stuff.

regardless of the reason that people dump illegally, it is an egregious affront to the community, no excuse gives a pass on this, as it fores a downward cycle on everyone, taxing City resources that surely have better uses. And, Yes, the City would find it less costly to put out periodic dumpsters or have community wide bulky pick up days if that mitigate this. However, that will not cure the dumping that is brought here from illegal contractors etc from surrounding Cities. This policy change needs to be regional, not just Oaktown.

There's a reason you see these perpetual piles of debris and garbage in Oakland and not in the surrounding communities, like Berkeley and San Leandro. It's become pretty obvious to everyone that Oakland has no time or resources to devote to enforcing anti-dumping laws, or property crime in general. If you catch someone in the act, and try calling it in to the cops, you just hang on the line forever. If you find personally identifiable mail in the material that's dumped, they just shrug. Has anyone been prosecuted for illegal dumping in the last few years? Nothing ever seems to happen to the perpetrators, so they keep on perpetrating.

If there were a serious effort to catch these people that got on the news, with investigators detailed to identify and arrest the dumpers, so you saw people in handcuffs next to the piles of junk they dumped, it would stop in a hurry.

Thank you for your request. According to our system, we already have an open service request at this location. Your service request has been combined with service request # 539535 . If you would like to check the status of the request, please contact the Public Works Call Center at (510) 615-5566 or pwacallcenter@oaklandnet.com.

Thank your for your Robo-sign - why don't you post the actual link for the alleged existing incident report - That number is not in the system See Click Fix; and the number refers to a matter in Chicago if I modify the URL.

Is that an excuse for not doing the clean up?

BETTER YET - why don't you come down and handle the matter, as it is growing daily - fortunately it is not next to a building, so it is unlikely to catch fire like the Garbage Boat and campier did on Stone.

IF - [y]ou are incapable of cleaning up these chronic messes (as seems the pattern of conduct in our business area), or developing more efficient, economical and logical clean up methods ( e.g. crews pick up a pile while they drive by another obvious pile, ignoring it as SOP), then PLEASE make a statement to that effect so we can compel a legislative change that would provide the resources you need to do this work.

City of Oakland Public Works Department addressed this issue on 09/11/2014, service request # 539535.

If anyone is in this area presently, please inspect and report back here

I gather it was not addressed?

I do not know Eileen - I am off for the weekend and will not know status until Monday; I was hoping that someone down there could check it out