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From: Garth Grimm (no email)
Date: Mon Aug 02 1999 - 20:13:54 EDT
Well, I'm at the the Port of Oakland and haven't heard anything about this
rumor as you stated it. I have heard that when the modifications for the Jack
London Square basin are completed, the Port intends to legalize (and charge
for) live-aboards up to the legal limit, at which point they will probably
crack down on those that aren't legal. I've also heard that the Port is going
to sell off some or all of the basins to private interest, and who knows what
policies the new owners will implement.
Currently, if they succesfully roust the "sneak-aboards", they're going to have
a LOT of empty slips.
Peace,
Garth
Marvin Hamon wrote:
> One of my co-workers told me this morning that he saw a news story on
> Fox News last night talking about how the city of Oakland, CA was
> moving to remove all the liveaboards from the Port Of Oakland Marinas.
> Did anyone else catch this? I know that the port was starting to crack
> down on some of the non-operational boats being used as cheap housing
> by putting a putt-putt rule into place.
>
> >From what I heard one of the liveaboards wrote to the Oakland Mayor
> complaining that his/her rights were being violated and that the port
> should be made to back off. This resulted in the city coming down even
> harder on the liveaboards. It should be noted that there are no legal
> liveaboards in the Oakland marinas. I guess it goes to show that if you
> are not a legal liveaboard you have to keep your head down and accept
> the fact that you have no right to live where you want to no matter how
> long someone has let you get away with it.
>
> I am glad I finally got a legal liveaboard slip and so ending 4 years
> of sneaking around trying to be unnoticed.
>
> Marvin
> S/V Osage
>
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