Anti-Blight Projects
Having blight problems on or near your block?
Talk to your neighbors about starting an anti-blight project on your block. After you solve the problem you can disband, or if you want continue as a DIA working group and help solve blight problems in other areas of Dimond, send an email to dia@dimondnews.org
Here are a few suggestions to get you started:
- Call blight abatement: 238-3381.
- To read a guide to Oakland's blight ordinance
click here - Send a message to the Dimond Message Board describing your problem and keep the neighborhood updated as you try to clean it up.
- Take a picture and send it to us. There are two ways to do that:
- digital camera
- take your film to Longs to be put on a disk.
- After you get a jpeg or gif you can email it to us.
If you can't clean it up before the next quarterly update of the Interdepartmental list, which will be in the fall, you have the option of adding your problem to the list.
Councilmember Dick Spees has assembled an interdepartmental team of staff members from half a dozen City departments. The purpose of this team is to expedite the City's responses to problems in Dimond, Laurel, Redwood Heights and other nearby neighborhoods.
To see the current list
Click here To add items to the interdepartmental list contact:
Niccolo De Luca
Assistant to Councilmember Spees
(510) 238-7042
Fax (510)238-6129
NDeLuca@oaklandnet.com