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The public space at Harbor Bay Landing has several rotted, ugly and even dangerous umbrellas at the public tables. Several complaints to landlord have been ignored. It is embarrassing to invite friend to have coffee here as they think we live in a homeless encampment or a community that just doesn’t care. Can’t the landlord be forced to fix this eyesore!!
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City of Alameda (Membre officiel vérifié)
spankymc (Utilisateur inscrit)
spankymc (Utilisateur inscrit)
alamedaDad75 (Utilisateur inscrit)
Anonymous (Utilisateur inscrit)
Jack McCredie (Utilisateur inscrit)
spankymc (Utilisateur inscrit)
Anonymous (Utilisateur inscrit)
Jack, I understand that you do not like the setting and you feel it is an eye sore. However, the entire landing is PRIVATE property for which the owner has opened to others. It IS NOT public property in the sense that Alameda owns it.
Technically, you are merely invited onto the property. They can simply tell you to leave if the owners wanted to. It’s NOT a public space.
This is the same thing as saying that you feel that your neighbors yard is an eye sore. Your neighbor can simply tell you to not go on his property if you felt that way.
Unless there is clearly a hazard which can lead to significant bodily harm, the City has no authority here to tell the landowner to buy new umbrellas.
Clos Rpalloff (Utilisateur inscrit)
Anonymous (Utilisateur inscrit)
i doubt anything is dangerous here to give rise to the City to step in to enforce them to buy new umbrellas, tables, and chairs. You guys are living on another planet and not being realistic. You are wasting both the community members time and public funds to tend address ironic complaints.
Let’s see how city staff responds to this complaint. I’m ready for a laugh.
Réouvert spankymc (Utilisateur inscrit)
K T (Utilisateur inscrit)
The part that is dangerous is the umbrellas with sharp parts sticking out in ways that could injure passersby. Alameda does indeed have a method to force landowners to correct this kind of danger: Code Enforcement. Unfortunately, I have been told by the city management that even in two cases where persons have already been injured because of code violations, the city does not consider those two properties within the "top 300" of their priorities. This is in the case of code violations that ave potentially fatal to residents and neighbors, and that have been reported years ago.
I suggest just going over and removing the umbrellas from the tables, stripping the cloth off, and recycling them through ACI. No one can be faulted for doing maintenance the property owner refuses to do, and the city of Alameda refuses to require the property owner to do, to protect persons from the risk of injury.
Anonymous (Utilisateur inscrit)
Anonymous (Utilisateur inscrit)
K T (Utilisateur inscrit)
Dangers are no less code violations because they are open and obvious to sighted persons. The danger would not be open and obvious to a person with poor or no eyesight, as is the case with many elderly and disabled persons, and children. A dangerous condition on private property does not need to be specifically listed in the Alameda code to constitute a dangerous condition the property owner can be required to abate.
Nonetheless, it is a waste of time to look this up, as Alameda Code Enforcement will not act, even if some disabled or elderly person or child is injured on this property. SeeClickFix is full of documentation that Alameda Code Enforcement--by this I mean McFann, Givens and Fullard--are unwilling or unable, in a competence sense, to enforce the municipal codes that protect the citizens of Alameda from much more dangerous code violations. The property owner knows there is no code enforcement in Alameda. That is why I suggest self help, as trying to get code enforcement to care about the safety of Alameda residents will only result in retaliation, and further dangers to the residents as the property owner becomes more certain there will never be any consequences from Code Enforcement.
Regardless of potential liability for injuries to his patrons, the coffee shop owner should just remove the umbrellas, properly dispose of them, and tell the property owner in writing that he has done so for the safety of his patrons and passersby, as the owner failed to do so after repeated requests. The blight is obviously hurting his business, as at this point the umbrellas are at the point of being dumped items.
Anyone who wants to have a copy of my comments on this needs to save them on their own computer or print them out, as SCF allows Alameda Code Enforcement to remove comments that in any way indicate they are not getting their jobs done. See the little whistle next to my name? I'm a whistleblower on this issue, going through the city hierarchy to correct Code Enforcement's failures and retaliation against endanger residents who report code violations.
K T (Utilisateur inscrit)
K T (Utilisateur inscrit)
Anonymous (Utilisateur inscrit)
Anyone can claim that something is dangerous. The fact that Code Enforcement will not address these issues means that there is no danger.... at least its not dangerous per their definition.
There is nothing to resolve here. The umbrellas, tables, and chairs are a non-issue here. What this really is all about is a customer complaint. I mind as well start posting on SeeClickFix about how the Bay Farm safeway has a very poor selection of fruits and produce! Perhaps I can get the City of Alameda involved here too!!!
Rpalloff (Utilisateur inscrit)
JM (Utilisateur inscrit)
Clos Alameda Building Official (Utilisateur inscrit)
Rpalloff (Utilisateur inscrit)
Rpalloff (Utilisateur inscrit)
K T (Utilisateur inscrit)
Code Enforcement.
Jack McCredie (Utilisateur inscrit)