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COMMUNITY PROGRAMS SUPERVISOR FELICIA VERDIN

13 Jan 16

Important Notice: Park Closure, St. Andrew's Plaza (32nd & San Pablo) The City of Oakland was awarded a State of California Housing Related Parks Grant to renovate St. Andrew's Plaza. St. Andrew's Plaza will be closed to public use for the City's planned demolition and reconstruction. The City will convene a community planning and design process beginning in February to solicit community input on the re-design and renovation of the Plaza. Given the planning, design and construction scheduled anticipated below, the Plaza is expected to re-open Summer 2017. Project Schedule Jan 2016 Community Engagement Feb 2016 Construction Phase 1 - Demo & Installation of Public Art Feb - May 2016 Community Feedback, Planning and Design Charrettes Jan - Sept 2016 Finalize Plans & Select Contractor Oct 2016 - May 2017 Construction Phase II - Implement Design Plan June - July 2017 Complete Construction and Plaza Re-Opens Join us at the Community Kick-Off Meeting hosted by Council Presidnet Lynette Gibson McElhaney who will introduce key staff and the City's design team. Come learn about future design charrette meeting dates, and how you can participate and give the City your input. Community Kick-Off Meeting Wednesday, January 27, 2016 6:00pm - 8:00pm West Oakland Youth Center 3233 Market Street For more information, contact: Woojae Kim Project Manager, Public Works Department, 510-238-3389 Brigitte Cook, Community Liaison, District 3 Council President Lynette McElhaney, 510-238-7245 Park Users are encouraged to visit one of the attached list of organizations for hot meals, clothing, or housing referrals, located within one-mile of St. Andrew's Plaza and throughout the City of Oakland.

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Community Programs Supervisor Felicia VerdinOakland Police Department·13 Jan 16

List of organizations near St. Andrew's Plaza.

L. F.Oakland, CA·13 Jan 16

Thank God! At long last!!!

T. L.Smartsville, CA·13 Jan 16

Awesome

T. L.Smartsville, CA·13 Jan 16

Feb 1?

C. K.Vancouver, WA·13 Jan 16

Awesome news for our neighborhood!

M. K.Walnut Creek, CA·14 Jan 16

No art please. Nothing that will get vandalized. Hopefully there's no room to sit, stand, or congregate. I'm fine with them tearing up the island and just re-aligning the street quite frankly. Good riddance to the park and everyone in it.

L. F.Oakland, CA·14 Jan 16

Melissa, I am in full agreement with you! I have lived directly across the street from that nightmare for 6 long years, and I'm tired of being a prisoner in my own home! That park is nothing more than drug haven, and it should be fully leveled!! No trees, or Sears, or planter boxes, or anything they can sit on or hide their drugs in! Completely flattened out! PERIOD! A tall upright piece of art, with a flat plaza, that's it....

S. G.Oakland, CA·14 Jan 16

It's a sad state of affairs when neighbors actually wish a park was turned into a police station. I just hope that whatever replaces it solves the problem. I've come to expect that our neighborhood was the neglected dumping grounds where homeless addicts were pushed. Much like the tenderloin of SF.

A. B.Richmond, CA·16 Jan 16

Durant Park on 29th St near MLK was recently renovated. This was a very active site for drug dealing and the occasional shootings that go w/ dealing. Since the reno, it's now a place where children can actually play and use the equipment, thanks to the courageous neighborhood mothers and g'mothers who sat outside for a few weeks after reopening to put the dealers on notice that this was their park, for their children. It also does have a fence which is locked at night, which should be part of whatever happens to St Andrews

M. B.Houston, TX·16 Jan 16

Some of these comments are depressing. Destroying a park, a public space, because of bad actors is giving in and losing. I don't think a barren cityscape is the solution to crime in Oakland. Build something the community wants, and will support, and that'll help keep criminal activity down, without making the community a bland, artless place.