This is the kind of depressing, visual blight that the tax-paying residents of Hoover-Foster are tolerating every day. It's horrible. Would someone with some intelligence and resourcefulness please run for District 3?

It does not help that Oakland seems to have a zero enforcement policy for littering and illegal dumping. Our neighborhood volunteers picked 50 KOCB bags of litter in the last two week in just the Dimond business district. It will not end till the litter bugs and illegal dumpers are cited and given lots of community service.

Good luck catching them in the act. City reps claim Depts short-staffed, under-funded. Yet, City is collecting record sums from developers along w/ giant increases in transfer taxes collected on sales of all those exponentially increased valuations of every property sold in Oakland......it's beyond reason.

Honestly, I find the complaining and griping here to be demoralizing. Let's stay constructive - clean up the trash, try to catch a perpetrator in the act and keep our neighborhoods getting better and better.

The City of Oakland fixed this issue on 06/14/2017, service request #738197.