How about you leave them alone and try and enjoy the character of our neighborhood?

if you like them so much I recommend you invite them over to your own private home and let them drum for 9 hours. These drummers definitely ad NO character to our neighborhood nor do they add anything to this nature preserve and park that belongs to all people for their quiet enjoyment not a concert group that disturbs a whole neighborhood.

There needs to be a limit on the time allowed to drum. The noise level is heard throughout my home with all the doors closed and they go past dark. Totally disrespectful for homeowners that leave facing the lake area. I have no problem with drumming respectful to the community you are playing in but the late night and long hours are unbearable and I shouldn't have to adjust to it. Please post or regulate the park drumming hours. Thank you .....a tax payer.

So are you just going to report every single group that performs in public? If you want absolute quiet, you live in the wrong place. Did you just move here?
You're the same guy that reported Aaron Warren's drumming, aren't you?

Signed,
A taxpayer

We all pay our taxes some more than others and I'm going to ignore your stupid remark about quiet space. Most of us have lived here long before this disrespectful group of noisemakers decided to make the pergola area there personal drumming practice space a couple of years ago. This park is NOT reserved for drumming groups for 8-9 hours every weekend. If you enjoy their drumming so much rent them a hall and YOU can peacefully enjoy their drumming noise for the full 9 hours uninterrupted. Our neighborhood has had enough this! FH

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Thank you.

I have lived on the 500 block of Merritt Avenue since 1978, first as a renter, and then an owner since 2001. I love drumming and used to go to listen to the drummers at UC Berkeley. However, what the City, and perhaps other registered users of this service do not seem to understand is that the noise of the drums is MUCH LOUDER on our block than it is on LakeShore or MacArthur Blvd where they are actually playing. So the sound becomes torture after a # of hours, as if it were a VERY LOUD faucet dripping....I love the vibrant colorful and diverse character of Oakland, and perhaps there is a different part of the Lake which is not surrounded by residential buildings that are above the Lake, but the duration of this drumming for this many hours every weekend is unbearable. Is there no way the community can come together for a responsible solution?

Very well stated. Thank you.
We need unity at such a times as these.

The drumming noise has been an issue for years. Past meetings with the "drumming collective", irritated neighbors and city officials have yielded absolutely no results. These musicians could care less about anyone but themselves.

This city turns a blind eye to enforcing ANY laws they consider non violent. Just look at our parks, streets and freeway underpasses they clearly show our cities priorities. I walk the lake often, mountains of trash, illegal parking, homeless camps all over but what you don't see is a police officer or park ranger that enforces any park rules. One of the worst run cities in America according to https://wallethub.com/edu/best-run-cities/22869/a

Thank you for sharing the wallethub web site . It is sad to see Oakland so far down on the list of well run cities, but I completely agree. The big question is what can we do to get some more positive action out of our city council.

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OAK 311 has referred this issue to NUISANCE, ABATEMENT. Please contact that department to follow-up (see "Other Helpful Links" at http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/PWA/Connect/ReportaProblem/index.htm#Links).

Here are some important City of Oakland contact points:
* Abandoned Autos: 510-777-8622 (abandoned vehicles on public street after 3 days)
* Animal Control: 510-535-5602 (live animals) or 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) or 510-777-3211 (in progress)
* Parking Citations: 800-500-6484 (parking citation assistance center, pay or appeal a citation) or 510-238-3099 (enforcement)
* Prostitution Hotline: 510-238-2373 (tips) or 510-777-3211 (in progress)

Thank you.

Nothing has changed!

How many more times will our Neighborhood have to report this noise nuisance before it will be enforced?

Now it has become an amplified music fest with multiple stages on who can outdo the other to be loudest............ Anarchy! it's time for us regular folk to not pay our city taxes and defund our city leaders.

Park rule and code enforcement are a thing of the past but we still get to pay for it.......it's time for a property tax strike!