Thank you for your request. According to our system, we already have an open service request of this kind at this location. Your request has been combined with service request #730835. 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. This issue can also be followed by watching http://seeclickfix.com/issues/3400816.

We have been waiting and waiting for the City to clean up the debris. I understand that there are legal issues associated w. removing the encampments. It is obvious, however, that the trash that is accumulating is just garbage. It may be generated by the encampment under 880 but I have observed individuals driving up and dumping items in this area. No excuse for the City's refusal to remove garbage that may well drive businesses from the area.

The City of Oakland has to decide. Encampments or tax paying individuals / Businesses - Be honest I do not spend my money in Oakland for this reason. Why should I go out and fight aggressive panhandlers and my car getting broken into, when I can go to a safe place across the tube to Alameda.

The City's cleanup crews are inundated with calls during a time when the two-year budget cycle is being reviewed and priorities being adjusted. As the barriers to economic development are not deemed important enough for the Economic & Workforce Development Department to plan around, even though (with the 3rd Street Corridor Opportunity Area adjacent to Jack London) written into the West Oakland Specific Plan, we are left in a realm of economic myopia and not enough resources to deal properly with this form of urban dryrot.

So business retention, expansion and attraction is one area of official City business, and cleanup, graffiti abatement, hazmat mitigation, etc., are all deemed to be the responsibility of Public Works, at a time when the two Departments should be more coordinated – and resolved to participation in a master plan (like the WOSP?) to eradicate all the blight that residents, businesses and workers have to contend with every day. Other cities have less of a problem because they are wealthier and therefore better able to keep freeways to a minimum in their residential areas. In Oakland, crossroads of the East Bay, we do not have that luxury, nor do we have the ability to compel CalTrans decisionmakers to be involved in a regional plan to resolve this mess, even though the majority of homeless encampments are set up beneath the Maze and its more-then-anywhere-else-in-the-State companion overpasses in the WOJLOO area.

Barriers to Economic Development and
Business Retention in Oakland
1. An extremely substandard public infrastructure
2. Abandoned rail lines in the middle of the streets (with large impassable potholes)
3. Excessive Crime of all types, need for improved means of response, communication,
reporting and prosecution.
4. Excessive amounts of illegal dumping
5. Massive amounts of graffiti on public and private property
6. Weeds and debris on public and private property
7. Homeless encampments
8. Excessive blight of all types, need improved means of response, communication, reporting
and prosecution
9. Lack of immediate removal of hazardous material on public streets and sidewalks causing
environmental damage.
10. Insufficient public access to local transit and subsequent negative effect on commerce,
business expansion and job creation
West Oakland Business Alert Mission Statement
The mission of West Oakland Business Alert group is to encourage
the retention, attraction and expansion of businesses in the area by
helping companies address the issues of safety and security.
The Business Alert Committee is committed to creating safer
neighborhoods for businesses and to improve the image of our
commercial corridors. The main goal is to create a better
environment for area residents and to help retain your business as
well as to attract new businesses to the area.

The City of Oakland fixed this issue on 05/19/2017, service request #730835.