Bit by Bit

FIGHTING BLIGHT ON CALDECOTT LANE

Before a Notice of Code Violation

After - Blight Abated

After Abatement - New Blight

After ClickFix Posting and Complaints from Neighbors - Refrigerator Removed

Diving for Treasure

Click here to see DUMPSTER DIVING taken to a whole new level. 

KEEPING ON CLEANING UP CALDECOTT LANE

TO ALL EARTH DAY VOLUNTEERS

THANK YOU for your hard work and cheery dedication to the task of cleaning up our storm drains and public land behind Caldecott Lane.

Green Waste Container to be used for Food Scraps and Yard Waste

To those who are interested in continuing the clean-up of vegetation, we have contacted our City Council members, Dan Kalb (District 1) and our Council Member at-Large, Rebecca Kaplan.  To have access to a debris bin, either Kalb or Kaplan will need to donate the cost of a debris bin and pick-up after clean-up.  Pending their response, there is a solution for smaller, regular clean-ups:

Each building from 120 to 158 Caldecott Lane has received One (1) GREEN CART for recycling.  Green carts are meant to hold food scraps and YARD TRIMMINGS:

Yard trimmings including:

·         Leaves

·         Flowers

·         Grass & weeds

·         Houseplants

·         Trimmings

·         Branches less than 4' long and 6" in diameter or across

·         Unpainted, untreated wood less than 4' long and 6" in diameter or across

Your green yard trimmings cart holds 64 gallons of material.

Feel free to fill it to the top, but don't let it overflow! Make sure the lid closes.

 

Volunteers Use Yard Bags to Clean up Landscape Cuttings Clogging Public Storm Drains

In addition, we have about 50 to 75 yard bags remaining from the Earth Day Clean-Up.

You may set out extra yard trimmings, at no extra charge, by:

·    Placing material in a brown paper bag next to your yard trimmings cart. 30-gallon brown paper bags are inexpensive, convenient and available from many local hardware stores.

 

Improper Use of Green Waste Container

Please contact tenantsofcaldecottlane@gmail.com to secure yard-bags left-over from the Earth Day clean-up to keep our momentum going!

For more information about GREEN WASTE, click here.

A Trashy Collection

A montage of the garbage containers on Caldecott Lane.

Click here to view photo album.

EARTH DAY VOLUNTEERS and TENANTS 

CLEANED-UP CALDECOTT LANE

See your photos on EARTH DAY 2013 PHOTO GALLERY

Tenants working together create positive change!

IT'S POSITIVELY CRIMINAL!

IT'S ILLEGAL TO DUMP WASTE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY

CALIFORNIA PENAL CODE 374.3 et seq. (redacted)

374.3. (a) It is unlawful to dump or cause to be dumped waste matter . . . 

on or in . . .public property . . .

   (c) A person violating this section is guilty of an infraction. Each day that waste placed, 

deposited, or dumped in violation of subdivision (a). . . remains is a separate violation.

  (e) A person convicted of a violation of this section shall be punished by a mandatory fine of not less than $250 nor more than $1,000 upon a first conviction, by a mandatory fine of not less than $500 nor more than $1,500 upon a second conviction, and by a mandatory fine of not less than $750 nor more than $3,000 upon a third or subsequent conviction. . .

 (g) Except when the court requires the convicted person to remove waste matter 

which he or she is responsible for dumping as a condition of probation, the court may,  

in addition to the fine imposed upon a conviction, require as a condition of probation, in

addition to any other condition of probation, that a person convicted of a violation 

of this section pick up waste matter at a time and place within the jurisdiction of the 

court for not less than 12 hours.

   (h) (1) A person who places, deposits, or dumps, or causes to be placed, deposited, 

or dumped, waste matter in violation of this section in commercial quantities shall be 

guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than 

six months and by a fine. The fine is mandatory and shall amount to not less than one 

thousand dollars ($1,000) nor more than three thousand dollars ($3,000) upon a first 

conviction, not less than three thousand dollars ($3,000) nor more than six thousand 

dollars ($6,000) upon a second conviction, and not less than six thousand dollars

($6,000) nor more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000) upon a third or

subsequent conviction.

   (2) "Commercial quantities" means an amount of waste matter generated in the course 

of a trade, business, profession, or occupation, or an amount equal to or in excess of 

one cubic yard. . .

Report the Dumping -- Collect Your Reward

IT’S ILLEGAL TO DEPOSIT, DUMP, OR LITTER

·        YARD TRIMMINGS

·        LEAVES

·        GRASS CLIPPINGS

·        TREE TRIMMINGS, AND

·        LANDSCAPE CUTTINGS.

INTO A STORM DRAIN OR CREEK.

A person who does this littering and is convicted under Cal. Penal Code sec. 374.7 shall be punished. . .

·         by a mandatory fine of not less $250 nor more than $1,000 upon a first conviction,

·         by a mandatory fine of not less than $500 nor more than $1,500 upon a second conviction,

·         and by a mandatory fine of not less than $750 nor more than $3,000 upon a third or subsequent conviction.

REWARD FOR INFORMATION

Cal. Penal Code sec. 374(a).  A person giving information leading to the arrest and conviction of a person for a violation of Cal. Penal Code Section 374.7 is entitled to a reward for providing the information.