status?

Who is the "Planning Manager"?

I was in the Permit Center a week a so ago and was told by "David from Planning" that a decision had been made by the Building Department to allow the owner of this building to convert 1217 B space into a legal residential unit, even though the 2004 unit determination showed the the entirety of that unit was part of the front commercial unit 1217 Park St., so the "last permitted use" was as a commercial property, not living space. The notice of violation says the illegal, unpermitted, and dangerous unit must be returned to its "last permitted use." David from Planning could not explain to me how this happened, not could he explain why the city has taken no action on this violation since it was first reported in September 2016. He was able to tell me that the decision was made entirely by the Building Department, and that if I wanted to know the answer I would need to talk to Greg McFann.

I was able to call the Planning Line again, getting Henry, who confirmed that David was correct, and that Planning had not made the decision, did not have access to the documents which would show how or why the decision was made, and that the only persons who could answer why the owner of this building is effectively being given a zoning variance is Greg McFann or one of the Code Enforcement officers under him. Please post the answer to this question here, as I have no hope of getting the information directly from McFann, Givens or Fullard.

Unfortunately I don't think this issue will ever get resolved due to severe corruption and incompetence in the Alameda city government. Unfortunately, the alameda city government is a festering proverbial swamp of corruption, laziness, and zero accountability, which has lead to widespread and unabated problems across the island, ranging from out of control homeless encampments to building code violations, to rampant burglaries, robberies, attempted and successful murders, etc. Unfortunately, it looks like the citizens of Alameda may need to pursue a collective legal action against the city government and forcefully drain the swamp to finally get these issues resolved. Perhaps we just need to establish a new city government for Alameda, comprised of citizens like us who actually care about the island and cleaning up all the myriad problems that our current city government continues to ignore and allow to fester and spread out of control.

Ah looks like my comment was censored by the automatic word censor. I must have used a dictionary word the site doesn't like even though my post contained no profanity. There's lots of fun innocuous words you're apparently not allowed to use on this site. For example the word "d.r.u.g" without periods will result in automatic censoring of your comment, or even the word "i.l.l.e.g.al" (without periods)

Let's see if I can figure out which "bad word" i used by trying to post my comment in parts.

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Unfortunately I don't think this issue will ever get resolved due to severe corruption and incompetence in the Alameda city government.

Unfortunately, the alameda city government is a festering proverbial swamp of corruption, laziness, and zero accountability, which has lead to widespread and unabated problems across the island

ranging from out of control homeless encampments to building code violations, to rampant burglaries, robberies

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Looks like the bad word was "m.u.r.d.e.r" (without periods). Apparently using the word "m.u.r.d.e.r" is not allowed on SeeClickFix, regardless of context. This is just one of the many myriad innocuous dictionary words that you're not allowed to use on this site, because apparently the English language is offensive and needs to be censored

Unfortunately I don't think this issue will ever get resolved due to severe corruption and incompetence in the Alameda city government. Unfortunately, the alameda city government is a festering proverbial swamp of corruption, laziness, and zero accountability, which has lead to widespread and unabated problems across the island, ranging from out of control homeless encampments to building code violations, to rampant burglaries, robberies, attempted and successful m.u.r.d.e.rs, etc. Unfortunately, it looks like the citizens of Alameda may need to pursue a collective legal action against the city government and forcefully drain the swamp to finally get these issues resolved. Perhaps we just need to establish a new city government for Alameda, comprised of citizens like us who actually care about the island and cleaning up all the myriad problems that our current city government continues to ignore and allow to fester and spread out of control.

@KT
I saw your thread on the rat problem, but it was closed to comment, so commenting here in chance you will see it. I have another failure of Alameda to enforce its own code. Any experience with filing a complaint with the City's Attorney? Assume that may be a requisite to a mandamus action.