but along this stretch of road, john kirkham describes it as a landfill. >> we're standing in the middle of probably one of the worst illegal dumping sites up here on grizzly peak boulevard. it's probably about 100 yards long, maybe 30 yards wide, a couple yards deep and trash the trash, spoiling this three mile stretch between centennial drive and claremont avenue is what inspired kirkham, a former attorney, to start the volunteer group playfully named the east bay trash pandas. we've been doing this work for about 14 months and picked up over 20 tons of trash in that time. >> since the group was formed, upwards of 70 volunteers have attended each cleanup event. >> this is 100% a team effort. we had people, you know, elbow deep, shoulder deep into the poison oak yesterday picking up old bottles. >> but after so many successful bi weekly and monthly events, kirkham is fed up over what he calls inaction by those who actually own the land. >> we want to put pressure on the landowners. you know, uc berkeley, this is your property. you're tasked with cleaning this area up. you've got to do t

but along this stretch of road, john kirkham describes it as a landfill. >> we're standing in the middle of probably one of the worst illegal dumping sites up here on grizzly peak boulevard. it's probably about 100 yards long, maybe 30 yards wide, a couple yards deep and trash the trash, spoiling this three mile stretch between centennial drive and claremont avenue is what inspired kirkham, a former attorney, to start the volunteer group playfully named the east bay trash pandas. we've been doing this work for about 14 months and picked up over 20 tons of trash in that time since the group was formed. >> upwards of 70 volunteers have attended each cleanup event. >> this is 100% a team effort. we had people, you know, elbow deep, shoulder deep into the poison oak yesterday picking up old bottles. >> but after so many successful bi weekly and monthly events, kirkham is fed up over what he calls inaction by those who actually own the land. >> we want to put pressure on the landowners, you know, uc berkeley, this is your property. you're tasked with cleaning this area up. you've got to do th

but along this stretch of road, john kirkham describes it as a landfill. >> we're standing in the middlegal dumping sites up here on grizzly peak boulevard. it's probably about 100 yards long, maybe 30 yards wide, a couple yards deep and trash the trash, spoiling this three mile stretch between centennial drive and claremont avenue is what inspired kirkham, a former attorney, to start the volunteer group playfully named the east bay trash pandas. we've been doing this work for about 14 months and picked up over 20 tons of trash in that time since the group was formed. >> upwards of 70 volunteers have attended each cleanup event. >> this is 100% a team effort. we had people, you know, elbow deep, shoulder deep into the poison oak yesterday picking up old bottles. >> but after so many successful bi weekly and monthly events, kirkham is fed up over what he calls inaction by those who actually own the land. >> we want to put pressure on the landowners, you know, uc berkeley, this is your property. you're tasked with cleaning this area up. you've got to do the work. >> he says after more than

kirkham street at at nine kirkham street at ninth and kirkham.somebody just put two concrete traffic calming things in that street right there at the corner and put it down into one lane and, and this plan is very, very it just shows kirkham street as a blue line. it doesn't show any slow street on any of that at all. but this previous, this other map that i was looking at, a current all ages and abilities facilities showed a block of slow streets between 14th and funston. so i want to know i want to make sure that that kirkham is still a car friendly street and that it's a bicycle friendly street. also, because it's got it's very wide street. there's plenty of room for bicycles, both sides. the main conflict is not speed in that street, but the traffic calming in the middle of the intersections that causes the cars to have to go toward the bikes at all those intersections. and then we have another conflict with the bikes and very new conflict the last week where a bunch of concrete traffic calming devices were put in on ninth avenue. and so we h

and i want to i want to talk about kirkham street, kirkham street from 16th avenue to approximately ninth or avenue. there's, there's it's kirkham street is a really wide street. how much time do i have now? one minute, 27 seconds. okay. it's a great street. and the, the bicycle people and the, the people who put the, the obstructions in the middle of the thing don't seem to have talked much because they have. there's a wonderful unintentional picasso kind of cubist sculpture that makes the cars drive at the bicyclists at series of intersections, then somebody just now has put a, a something at ninth and kirkham that makes it go down to one lane. thank you. so i'm i'm here to say parks are for recreation sidewalks are for pedestrians. and streets are for transportation. thank you. thank you. any additional public comment? this is for item number nine and this is public comment. general public comment for items not on the agenda. okay. and i believe we have an accommodation. we have one accommodation request. speaker. you've been unmuted. this is herbert weiner. first of all i would like t

officers responded to the area of seventh and kirkham streets around 1030 thursday morning, and found one person with a gunshot wound. the victim was transported to the hospital and is listed in critical but stable condition. no word, ots being fired. and police ine oakland also investigating other shooting that took place on thanksgiving. the victim was robbed and then struck several times with a gun whil sitting in a vehicle on 92nd avenue, right neachry street. the suspect then fired his gun toward the vehicle while running away. the robbery victim was not shot. anyone with information about either shooting is asked to contact oakland police. well, new numbers tonight from the oakland police department show. oakland is on track to end the year with a drop in crime compared to last year. from january 1st to mid november of last year, there were 105 homicides in oakland, more than 3300 reports of robberies, more than 13,000 car break ins, 13,000 cars were stolen and nearly 1700 commercial break ins. now compare that to the same time period this year. and all of those crimes are down,