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  Acknowledged City of Oakland (Verified Official)

  OAK 311 has received this issue. Your service request ID is #1358340. Please check back for status updates, or contact us directly at 510-615-5566.

  11/27/2023 · Flag Flagged
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  LinB (Registered User)

  I logged a similar report and was told that property belongs to CalTrans. I had logged a report with CT https://csr.dot.ca.gov/
  The illegal campsite is in a protected watershed - Sausal Creek. There are risks of pollution from garbage & human waste AND wildfire from the campsite, endangering residential neighborhoods uphill.

  11/27/2023 · Flag Flagged
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  Oakland 311 (Verified Official)

  Thank you for contacting OAK311 regarding this matter. However, for issues related to Caltrans infrastructure or a Caltrans property, please reach out to Caltrans using one of the following ways:

  1. By completing and submitting a Customer Service Request, using the following URL: https://csr.dot.ca.gov/ – There is also a mobile app available at the app and play stores.
  
  2. Emailing: Caltrans_D4@dot.ca.gov
  
  3. By calling: 510 286-6173

  Thank you.

  11/27/2023 · Flag Flagged
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  Starchild (Registered User)

  Just complaining about homeless people being camped at a particular location is not particularly constructive, to say nothing of compassionate.

  Being in a watershed does not *automatically* cause pollution, garbage, or fire risks. It depends what people are doing there. Let's not criminalize people just for existing.

  Aiding and abeting the criminalization of poverty, making the lives of people who are already struggling to get by even more stressful and difficult, just contributes to more anti-social attitudes and feelings of alienation from society among those experiencing homelessness, while undermining harmony and civil liberties in the community as a whole.

  Let's repeal zoning laws, land use restrictions, and other bureaucratic obstacles to the creation of more housing. If these barriers hadn't been in place for decades, we wouldn't have the rampant homelessness that exists now.

  11/28/2023 · Flag Flagged
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  G-Dog (Registered User)

  I’m not hating on homeless people- but I lived in West Oakland before buying a house in Montclair- I endured the horrible inhumane disgusting living conditions that overwhelmed my neighborhood- I’m not going to let it happen here.
  Fight the good fight-

  11/30/2023 · Flag Flagged
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  Starchild (Registered User)

  Well, G-Dog, generations of NIMBYs have proved that it is indeed possible to use government force to keep social ills (or perceived ills) out of their neighborhoods, or push them out if they ever start to gain a foothold, so that people living in other areas are burdened instead.

  Of course this contributes to social inequality, since the unpopular people and uses are typically pushed to neighborhood populated by poorer and more marginalized residents, often areas disproportionately comprised of members of racial minority groups.

  Many of these NIMBYs probably did not HATE the people they were excluding or forcing to move, or the people living in the places that ended up bearing a disproportionate share of perceived problems.

  But to those on the receiving end, the significance of this distinction may well be lost.

  12/01/2023 · Flag Flagged
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  G-Dog (Registered User)

  

  I lived near the WOakland BART station- not bad in 2004- a nightmare when I left- absolutely NIMBY-

  12/01/2023 · Flag Flagged

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