<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><br></div>One thing I'm very confused about is the garbage disposal. I'm thinking about visiting sudoroom and emptying out a lot of the stuff in there, throwing it in the dumpster<br><br>
however, the dumpster is padlocked, which makes sense.<br></div>how do we get to it? do we have to ask G? <br><br></div>if we have a car and we can drive away with any garbage or ewaste, are there convenient dumpsters nearby that anyone can recommend? i will "Google it" but if there's a place that has a special deal i'd appreciate<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 9:26 PM, johanna faust <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:female.faust@gmail.com" target="_blank">female.faust@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<i>An Engineer's Diuers Obseruations Concernynge </i></p>
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<b><i><font color="#996633"><span style="font-size:x-small"><font face="garamond, serif">Crime prevention through environmental design</font></span></font></i></b></blockquote>
<i><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-style:normal"><i><font color="#996633"><span style="font-size:x-small"><font face="garamond, serif">(</font></span></font></i><b><i><font color="#996633"><span style="font-size:x-small"><font face="garamond, serif">CPTED</font></span></font></i></b><i><font color="#996633"><span style="font-size:x-small"><font face="garamond, serif">) is a multi-disciplinary approach to deterring criminal behavior through environmental design. CPTED strategies rely upon the ability to influence offender decisions that precede criminal acts. As of 2012, most implementations of CPTED occur solely within the built environment. Changing the areas we reside in to deter criminals from committing acts in our communities is the main goal of CPTED. With urban design and the planning that goes into the creation of new and reformation of older communities, citizens in these neighborhoods and places of business can feel safer at all hours.</font></span></font></i><span style="font:18.0px unifont"><font color="#996633"><span style="font-size:x-small"><font face="garamond, serif">❞ [</font></span></font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,6,84)"><i><font color="#996633"><span style="font-size:x-small"><font face="garamond, serif">Read </font></span></font></i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_prevention_through_environmental_design" target="_blank"><i><font color="#996633"><span style="font-size:x-small"><font face="garamond, serif">more</font></span></font></i></a><i><font color="#996633"><span style="font-size:x-small"><font face="garamond, serif"> at </font></span></font><span style="font-size:x-small"><font face="garamond, serif">Wikipedia]</font></span></i></span></span></div>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654">The Landlord MUST replace this light and make sure that its operational. There should be no hesitation: you ask, he replaces. It should have been done yesterday. </p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#59251b"><b>The Trees Across The Street</b></p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654">Get the City of Oakland to trim back the trees (hopefully) just around the street-lamps across the street. There are three lights up on the building across the street, meant to light the street: it could be much better lit. See the double-plus-good discussion on Anti-Blight, below.</p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#59251b"><b>(3)</b></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#59251b"><b>The Parking Deck Next Door</b></p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654">The building owner may be the owner of the parking deck. If he does, getting the lights that are busted fixed is as easy as it was in number (1). He is required to do it. And he should know this, if he has owned property for more than a month. Because he should know first or secondhand that if he does not fix it there is a damn good possibility (based on precedent in case law) that he will be financially liable for damages resultant from any further criminal activity.</p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654"><b>if he’s not the same owner, then it’s a research question whether a property owner owes a duty of care to next door neighbors. I guess that would be why there are blight laws, huh?</b></p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654"><b>which means, if he does nothing, SRers may have a case against him for what has already occurred (?).</b></p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654">If it’s things like lights in the alley then there are 10 lights. There were 7 that were spaced at regular intervals as you go down the alley, mounted 15- 20 feet up on the wall of the parking deck. If they were there they would be shining light down into that darkness from where they are no longer mounted about 20 feet up. Only one non-functional one remains. Once you see it you’ll be able to see where the others were.</p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654">Then there are the three lights whose bulbs are burnt out where the bank drive thru is (was?) down at the other end of the alley.</p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654">Street-lamps each have two super bright bulbs by means of which they light up the night. This in turn enables people to see other people at a greater distance than they would otherwise, and avoid interaction if that is prudent.</p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654">At the intersection of 22nd & Broadway one of the streetlight's bulbs is out. On the SR side of the street. This does in fact make things more dangerous.</p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654">The city has to replace it, and pronto -- same deal -- we need to bug the fuck out of them until they do it.</p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#59251b"><b>Conclusion</b></p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654">Three different departments and one council-person; one or two building owners.</p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654">it is a principle of sound design that good lighting is essential to a secure building. building codes are written stemming from, and reinforcing, this. There are, consequently, social, political, and legal mechanisms whereby certain actions that prevent and/or counteract blight can be taken. The point is to do so with the least amount of delay or opportunity for that action to devolve into inaction, which leads to more blight, and directly and indirectly may result in harm to people or property. Which we do not want. Which is the point.</p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654">Is it a part of fire code? The fire department requires trees be trimmed back so that people will not be able to break into other people's houses without being seen...</p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#59251b"><b>A Note Concerning Insistent Constituents</b></p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654"> Without delving into the ethical underpinnings, that ism, without agreeing or disagreeing with this social principle, one can see that it is empirically true that the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Applying this to the situation at hand, the axiom becomes: if you keep bugging them, they will do it.</p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654">SR has a landlord, who may or may not be the building owner. It also has a council-person, and a person who runs the department responsible for the city's control of urban blight, and a person who runs the department responsible for the city's trimming of trees. A month of hearing from someone every daywill probably motivate the necessary action. They are limited in the resources that they have, including attention. A kindly daily reminder/report of status will help focus that attention.</p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654"> as far as organizing the once a day calling</p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654"><i>[what if you can’t? –ed] [i would be willing to go in person –ed] </i></p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654">come up with talking points or even specific phrases, </p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654">( like republicans do) such as “constituent service”</p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654">remind them that there have been “five events in the past month <i>[accuracy check, please –ed] </i>requiring police intervention at SR”<i> [as i/we understand it -- i do not have all the details myself –ed]</i></p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654"><b>- the pepper spraying incident </b></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654"><b>- the car break-in</b></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654"><b>- the stolen ipad</b></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654"><b>- the being held up at gunpoint</b></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654"><b>- the guy messing with the keypad trying to get in</b></p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654">maybe give a status report such as X,Y and Z await action; A is scheduled for <day>,<date>; B is underway; C has been promised, but no date has been scheduled/estimated/committed to</p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:14.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654"><b> a secondhand bit of info, FWIW: where SR is, at the edge of Koreatown Northgate, or KoNo, there are no beat cops because supposedly Northgate has the lowest incidence of violent crime -- but this is only because the city does not count armed robbery as a violent crime. KoNo has the highest incidence of armed robbery.</b></p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654">zoom in on map (assessors map at <a href="http://www.acgov.org/assessor/maps2.htm" target="_blank">http://www.acgov.org/assessor/maps2.htm</a>) to get the parcel # (APN) then you can get more details here also </p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654">take APN and/or other details and feed them in to <a href="http://rechart1.acgov.org" target="_blank">http://rechart1.acgov.org</a></p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654">I forgotten the exact method of feeding the APN into the link above to find the current owner, mainly because I can’t remember right now what the right combo of leading, trailing, and extra middle zeros to trim is, but we hack right? 3 quick ideas</p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654"><i>1. Brute force – </i></p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654"><i>2. Use knowledge that you have of a property already – </i></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654">and feed it in to retrieve that property’s info to backward engineer the right format</p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654"><i>3. Go to courthouse – </i></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654">and look on their property info computers. They rarely have a queue and seem to be available for just this kind of use by the public. Unrestricted access 8:30-2:30 or 4 except for passage through the courthouse entrance: metal-detector for your person and the x-ray machine for your effects.</p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654"><i>[following are the results of the Speaker's engaging in the above research technique –ed]</i></p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 36.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654">Parking deck <span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 36.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>8-648-16-3</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 36.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span> [Owned by “exempt public agency” per Assessor’s, </p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 36.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>so very likely city of Oakland]</p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 36.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654">Parcel of SR building<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 36.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>8-648-1</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 36.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654;min-height:15.0px"><br></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 36.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654">Parcel facing Broadway at other end of block from SR </p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 36.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>8-648-18</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 36.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#000654;min-height:14.0px"><br></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 36.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654">Middle of block and alley next to SR building </p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 36.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>8-648-17</p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654">Having found out that the City of Oakland owns the parking deck next door, and they’re responsible for its blight makes me both more and less optimistic about whether they alone will fix the blight depending on my estimation of their willingness to fix their own problems. OTOH, since they are responsible to the citizenry in general, and they have geographic knowledge of problems via mapping crime and they are the landlords of the blighted property they arguably already have the kind of legal liability for what has happened recently, the kind that was mentioned above only in prospect for SR’s landlord. As I understand it, it’s established law that if a government is performing a function that isn’t unique to government (the set of which seems to be shrinking), that it has no sovereign immunity for doing it poorly. </p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654">Please forgive the upcoming caps: WARNING: GO TO AN ACTUAL LAWYER IF YOU WANT A LEGAL OPINION RENDITIONED RENDERED. I only offer my opinion which is not withheld pending ransom retainer. (Sorry for the caps –CYA.)</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654">The point is court action possibly offers another stick (but it is a blunt instrument). A carrot might be to offer to help correct the situation, but that would be poisonous to relations with city unions, probably, even if a qualified person could be fielded. The greater point you already know well and practice: to think (sideways or whatever direction) to the extent you believe the issues are salient. Hope my modest thought offering is helpful.</p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:9.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654"><i>see also wikipedia:</i></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:9.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654"><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_prevention_through_environmental_design" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_prevention_through_environmental_design</a></i></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:9.0px Times New Roman;color:#000654"><i>and its reading list:</i></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 36.0px;font:9.0px Times;color:#000654"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>International CPTED Association</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 36.0px;font:9.0px Times;color:#000654"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>European Designing Out Crime Association</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 36.0px;font:9.0px Times;color:#000654"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Stichting Veilig Ontwerp en Beheer (the Netherlands)</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 36.0px;font:9.0px Times;color:#000654"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>California Designing Out Crime Association</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 36.0px;font:9.0px Times;color:#000654"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Crime prevention and the built environment.</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 36.0px;font:9.0px Times;color:#000654"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Washington State University CPTED Annotated Bibliography. Url last accessed May 6, 2006.</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 36.0px;font:9.0px Times;color:#000654"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Oscar Newman, <i>Creating Defensible Space</i> (pdf) (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research, 1996). Url last accessed May 6, 2006.</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 36.0px;font:9.0px Times;color:#000654"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>CPTED LinkedIn Discussion Group</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 36.0px;font:9.0px Times;color:#000654"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>SmartCode Module on CPTED</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 36.0px;font:9.0px Times;color:#000654"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Secured by Design (UK)</p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:9.0px Times New Roman;color:#59251b"><b><i>N.B.: These are the near verbatim notes I took of an impromptu talk. They have been reviewed and edited by both the Scribe and the Speaker, & unless bracketed & followed by attribution, (as in "[...in respect of actionability alone these ideas are robust indeed. –ed.]") represent the ideas mostly in the exact words of the Speaker.</i></b></p>
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