please help our neighborhood

Alliance Metals gets strictly regulated/ shut down/ moved and a lot of this neighborhoods problems go away.

I'm not so sure that the problems will go away - aren't there other recyclers in the neighborhood? The problem is that the City leaders and police allow this to go on. The City and it's administration have tacitly decided that West Oakland should be a dumping ground for the problems of the city - by allowing "anything goes" behavior here they keep the revenue producing areas of the city (Uptown, the Lake neighborhoods, etc) pretty & clean & safe.

The problems will go away if Alliance Metals (where the addicts get the money), P&M Market (dealing), & St. Andrew Plaza Park (majority hang out there when high) get shut down.

start ringing the new mayor's doorbell.

Is there any way, with our combined effort, to make even one of those 3 causes go away? The city seems more than content to leave things just the way they are - great tax revenue from liquor stores & metal recyclers

Bring it up on the Dogtown FB page as a topic.

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I feel really bad about anyone who has no other choice but living on the streets with their addictions, and I'm sure many of us feel the same. But if we're paying taxes to keep our streets safe and clean, and they are not, we need to bother our authorities and our neighbors to keep our communities safe. I've lived here my entire life and I've seen changes, but not enough. Authorities and politicians ignore us. Shame on business like Glass King and P&M, shame on our authorities.

I have only been a homeowner here for 6 years, I've seen incredible good changes in much of Oakland, however, the St Andrews Plaza situation has gotten much worse the past 6 years, spreading down & taking over Filbert St with needles, human feces, stolen bikes all over the place. I also feel badly for many of these folks, who have obvious mental health issues, but allowing public spaces to become a free-for-all is criminally negligent of the city. You have lived here all your life, do you have any ideas how to put pressure on the city administration?

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Here are some important City of Oakland contact points:

Abandoned Autos: (510) 777-8622 (abandoned vehicles on the public street after 3 days)

Animal Control (510) 535-5602 (live animals); (510) 535-4888 (dead animals)

Code Enforcement: (510) 238-3381 (blighted private properties, deteriorated buildings, inoperable vehicles on private property)

Drug Hotline: (510) 238-3784 (tips); (510) 777-3211 (in progress)

Parking Citations (800) 500-6484 (parking citation assistance center, pay or appeal a citation); (510) 238-3099 (enforcement)

Prostitution Hotline: (510) 238-2373 (tips); (510) 777-3211 (in progress)

Thank you.

I'm only getting involved now. When my parents complained with OPD or our representatives they got ignored.

this has been my experience also, no one EVER calls back. I have been working on a blighted, trashed property for 3 years now. You have to just keep calling every week. It's a shame that people have to work so hard to make the city do in WOak what it does so easily in other parts of Oakland, i.e., keep the place safe & clean. We need a task force on homeless that focuses on WOak. Relying on the churches to address is is not working. The churches hand out meals in containers & then let people leave to scatter food & trash all over this neighborhood. if the meals were served only at the church, then everyone would eat there & could clean up after themselves.

I respect alk of us who give to the ones in need, but also it's our duty to teach them. If we are going to give we also need to teach them not to trash our communities and take care of them. I always see people @#$% at the entrance of the Union Park, where the tables and chairs are and produce is sold by City Slickers on Saturdays...

*peeing

Since when it's OK to spend hours drinking and drug dealing in a park?

Thanksgiving weekend parties everyday. People brought food, alcohol. People gave and gave to the people who hangs at this corner, but no one gave a dime about picking up the left overs, garbage, etc. What's going on in this part of town that authorities allowed this kind of behavior?

this is the problem, I am glad that people care about feeding the mentally ill but none of these people are incapable of cleaning up after themselves, or if they are they should be fed at the churches that receive funds from the county such as Healthy Communities under Pastor Lankford
www.healthycommunities.us/

How hard it is for the cops to show up and give citations for drinking in public? This people are in this corner day and night.
How about the drug dealing and using the whole park as a bathroom?
This park needs cameras.

Contact OPD, muni code violations 9.08.160, 9.08.170, 9.08180, 9.08190. Please look these muni codes up so you can tell the police laws that are being viotated. The police do not know all the laws. Knowledge is power.

Camping site is growing big.

Camping growing big. With it the amount and garbage.

Of garbage

Oakland Police need to get out of the cars and cite people or drag them off to jail for a shower and hot meal. Where are the many church groups in this neighborhood?

This corner is still being used as a bar, bathroom, drug shop, stolen bike shop and garbage dump.

Bathroom? I think you mean open sewer

Reported: on 11-10-2014 and nothing has changed for the better.

Where is the leadership from our Council member on this topic?

Do we have a council member??

Lynette Gibson McElhaney

Oh, that is right! What is her name again?

She is too busy being council president & flipping houses for profit (while railing against the practice when running) to be concerned

Haha, that's funny, then I realized that what you are saying, Foxhound, is true. Not funny. It is pretty upsetting.