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  City of Alameda (Verified Official)

  City of Alameda assigned this issue to Maintenance Management

  05/30/2018 · Flag Flagged
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  Acknowledged City of Alameda (Verified Official)

  Public Works has received your sidewalk repair request (#18-05-0262) and assigned it to our sidewalk inspector. Given we receive hundreds of these requests per year on virtually every stretch of Alameda’s 260 miles of sidewalk, your electronic submission goes a long way to helping you and Public Works track the request. Per Alameda’s municipal code and state law, property owners are responsible for the sidewalk adjacent to their property. As a courtesy, the City completes sidewalk repairs when the repair has been caused by a City-maintained street tree. Thus, the City inspector will inspect the repair to evaluate if it is less than ¾ inch and has been caused by a City-maintained street tree. If not, the owner will be sent a notice to repair the sidewalk. If the repair has been caused by a street tree, in most instances, the City's Concrete shop will grind the sidewalk and/or insert a fillet, and place the location on our permanent repair list. This process to get on the permanent repair list typically takes 30 days. The permanent repair, however, will likely take much longer. A permanent repair is when new concrete is poured to fix the repair. Nearly 700 of these repairs were performed last year, most by the City’s annual sidewalk repair contractor. Those locations, and their number, are chosen based on limited available funds and are completed in order of the repair’s submission date. Even though Public Works has nearly doubled its annual repair rate recently, there is a still a backlog of thousands of sidewalk repairs, largely due to years and years of underinvestment. Thank you in advance for your help (and patience) in maintaining Alameda’s sidewalks.

  05/30/2018 · Flag Flagged
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  City of Alameda (Verified Official)

  Your request (#18-05-0262) is now a work order, assigned to staff. Thank you for helping to keep Alameda a great City. This is an automated response. If your request is an emergency, please call 911.

  05/31/2018 · Flag Flagged
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  Closed City of Alameda (Verified Official)

  Thank you for submitting this request (#18-05-0262). It has been addressed and is now closed.

  08/27/2019 · Flag Flagged
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  Reopened Michael Radding (Registered User)

  I don't understand why it was closed. There's still no curb ramp for people with wheelchairs.

  09/03/2019 · Flag Flagged
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  Acknowledged City of Alameda (Verified Official)

  Thank you for your request (#19-09-0004) to help ensure Alameda's sidewalks are as safe as possible. Given we receive hundreds of these requests per year on virtually every stretch of Alameda's 260 miles of sidewalk, your electronic submission goes a long way to helping you and Public Works track the request.

  Your request is being assigned to our Public Works Inspector Earl Johnson. Per Alameda's municipal code and state law, property owners are responsible for the sidewalk adjacent to their property. As a courtesy, the City completes sidewalk repairs when the repair has been caused by a City-maintained street tree. Thus, the City inspector will inspect the repair to evaluate if it is less than ¾ inch and has been caused by a City-maintained street tree. If the repair is not caused by a City-maintained tree or City sewer, the owner will be sent a notice to repair the sidewalk.

  If the repair has been caused by a City-maintained street tree or City sewer, Public Works Street Supervisor Todd Williams and his maintenance staff will install a temporary make-safe, such as grinding the sidewalk, inserting an asphalt fillet, or removing the damaged sidewalk section and re-pouring a temporary asphalt patch. These temporary measures are typically completed within 30 days of a requests' submission, and then the location is placed on the City's permanent repair list.

  A permanent repair is when new concrete is poured to fix the sidewalk. More than 20,000 linear feet of sidewalk was repaired annually in recent years, primarily by the City's annual sidewalk repair contractor. The locations of these repairs, and their quantity, are chosen based on limited available funds and usually completed in order of the repair's submission date. While Public Works has nearly doubled its annual repair rate in recent years, a backlog of at least $9 million in sidewalk repairs remains due to many years of underinvestment.

  Thank you in advance for your help (and patience) in maintaining Alameda's sidewalks. If you have any further questions, please call 747-7900 and ask for either Public Works Inspector Earl Johnson or Engineer Shilpa Patel.

  09/03/2019 · Flag Flagged
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  City of Alameda (Verified Official)

  Your request (#19-09-0004) is now a work order, assigned to staff. Thank you for helping to keep Alameda a great City. This is an automated response. If your request is an emergency, please call 911.

  01/08/2021 · Flag Flagged

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