Comments on: City’s Graffiti http://actlocallysf.org/blog/smartsolutionsblog/2007/04/18/citys-graffiti/ The ActLocallySF Smart Solutions Blog Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:25:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.0 by: Norm Gilbert http://actlocallysf.org/blog/smartsolutionsblog/2007/04/18/citys-graffiti/#comment-74 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 02:54:10 +0000 http://actlocallysf.org/blog/smartsolutionsblog/2007/04/18/citys-graffiti/#comment-74 Look at the building at 20th Strret and Harrison (NE corner). It's owned by a Mr. Jack Tseng, who lives in a huge mansion in Hillsbourough and can clearly afford to keep his property in good repair. He just chooses not to. There's a CBS Outdoor billboard on the side of the building, so the money he gets from CBS probably covers his annual taxes. This property consists of an abandoned Venezuelan restuarant downstairs and a bunch of non-english speaking people crowded into some apartments above. These people have no garbage service and so dump their trash who knows where. The building is a fire hazrd. There are weeds all around. And the building is literally covered on every square inch of space with graffiti. I called this into 28 Clean at least 25 times and nothing was ever done. It wasn't until I started calling directly into every department in the city that might help that I finally got someone in DPW to take action and he got the building posted with a notice to abate graffiti with a hearing date for the owner to appear and explain why he hans't removed the graffiti. Now, it seems that rather than paint out the graffiti or go to the hearing an explain himself, Mr. Tseng has decided to sell the clap-trap eye-sore. But it is still covered head to toe with graffiti. It seems that 28 Clean only responds to graffiti complaints on stuff the city is responsible for keeping graffiti free. So when I call in a mailbox or fire hydrant, it gets handled very quickly. Likewise, any sidewalk trash gets picked up by roving radio dispatched trucks. But if I call in graffiti on private property or sidealks pushed and contorted out of shape by tree roots to where they are a hazard to walk, NOTHING GETS DONE. ARE YOU READING THIS GAVIN? NOTHING GETS DONE. NOTHING!!! In addition, while the DPW painters are quick to act on the mailboxes and fire hydrants, the city's sign shop is totally non-responsive to graffiti on signs. I call in to 28 clean with reports of obliterated signs, covered with stickers and graffiti and they never ever get replaced. I have now resorted to demanding an incident case report number from the person taking my report and I write it down. If, after ten days, no repairs have been made, I call back with the case number and demand to speak to supervisor to find out why the sign hasn't been changed out. So, while I applaud how well 311 (the replacement for 28 clean) works, once these job tickets are sent out to city departments, in most cases nothing ever happens.<ul><li><label>Overall Rating</label>: 10</li> </ul> Look at the building at 20th Strret and Harrison (NE corner). It’s owned by a Mr. Jack Tseng, who lives in a huge mansion in Hillsbourough and can clearly afford to keep his property in good repair. He just chooses not to. There’s a CBS Outdoor billboard on the side of the building, so the money he gets from CBS probably covers his annual taxes.

This property consists of an abandoned Venezuelan restuarant downstairs and a bunch of non-english speaking people crowded into some apartments above. These people have no garbage service and so dump their trash who knows where. The building is a fire hazrd. There are weeds all around.

And the building is literally covered on every square inch of space with graffiti. I called this into 28 Clean at least 25 times and nothing was ever done.

It wasn’t until I started calling directly into every department in the city that might help that I finally got someone in DPW to take action and he got the building posted with a notice to abate graffiti with a hearing date for the owner to appear and explain why he hans’t removed the graffiti.

Now, it seems that rather than paint out the graffiti or go to the hearing an explain himself, Mr. Tseng has decided to sell the clap-trap eye-sore. But it is still covered head to toe with graffiti.

It seems that 28 Clean only responds to graffiti complaints on stuff the city is responsible for keeping graffiti free. So when I call in a mailbox or fire hydrant, it gets handled very quickly. Likewise, any sidewalk trash gets picked up by roving radio dispatched trucks.

But if I call in graffiti on private property or sidealks pushed and contorted out of shape by tree roots to where they are a hazard to walk, NOTHING GETS DONE. ARE YOU READING THIS GAVIN? NOTHING GETS DONE. NOTHING!!!

In addition, while the DPW painters are quick to act on the mailboxes and fire hydrants, the city’s sign shop is totally non-responsive to graffiti on signs.

I call in to 28 clean with reports of obliterated signs, covered with stickers and graffiti and they never ever get replaced.

I have now resorted to demanding an incident case report number from the person taking my report and I write it down. If, after ten days, no repairs have been made, I call back with the case number and demand to speak to supervisor to find out why the sign hasn’t been changed out.

So, while I applaud how well 311 (the replacement for 28 clean) works, once these job tickets are sent out to city departments, in most cases nothing ever happens.

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