Reported via email to abandonedauto@oaklandnet.com

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City of Oakland Public Works Agency referred this issue to OPD ABANDONED AUTOS, service request # 506396.Please contact that agency to follow-up, see “Other Helpful Links” at:
http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/PWA/Connect/ReportaProblem/index.htm#Links.

Here are some important City of Oakland contact points:

Abandoned Autos: (510) 777-8622 (abandoned vehicles on the public street after 3 days)

Animal Control (510) 535-5602 (live animals); (510) 535-4888 (dead animals)

Code Enforcement: (510) 238-3381 (blighted private properties, deteriorated buildings, inoperable vehicles on private property)

Drug Hotline: (510) 238-3784 (tips); (510) 777-3211 (in progress)

Parking Citations (800) 500-6484 (parking citation assistance center, pay or appeal a citation); (510) 238-3099 (enforcement)

Prostitution Hotline: (510) 238-2373 (tips); (510) 777-3211 (in progress)

Thank you.

City Hall should coordinate parking enforcement and street sweeping to quickly locate and remove these vehicles. They cause more of a dent in the vitality of the neighborhood than any amount of fine the city hopes to rack-up on them. Plus, I've read the city doesn't even collect on most of the abandoned vehicle fines! Get them off Oakland's streets, to the junk yard, and collect some scrap money City of Oakland!

I have heard that Parking Enforcement doesn't have the ability to run license plates, so stolen cars may sit there accumulating tockets for quite a while before being towed. The poor owner is out getting a new car while their car sits in some part of town, possibly getting stripped.

Closed.