Last year i called the number of the real estate or leasing agency and told them they had squatters and they had yard sales and a moving truck parked in the side walk they acted like they didn’t care!! This place is a hot mess, not the only one but geez everyone sees it on the main street

Thank you for posting this, this is a menace to our city and needs to be torn down before a fire get started here.

Perhaps another candidate for burning down and the gas station across the street from its out of business and abandon, that’s not helping the area.

Maybe this is why the CoV can’t afford a Homeless Shelter or Low Income Housing ... They plan to spend millions of tax dollars on a new VPD

http://www.timesheraldonline.com/vallejo-council-asked-to-spend-13-million-to-buy-new-police-department-building

Mismanagement at its best, give the VPD a fancy new building on the waterfront but nothing for those with nothing.

O get over it

How about we make sure we have an adequate homeless shelter in Solano County before we worry about a new police station, unless we intend on using the old building as a shelter once the police department moves out.

Dee j, i completely agree!!!!!!!! This new city manager is going to drive Vallejo into bankruptcy again. 13 plus million for the building and another "20 million" to retrofit it! The town is falling apart, but we have new street lights on sonoma boulevard, a new pipeline going across the napa river, and other ideas and projects that dont make this city any better in the long run!

It would make much more sense to have a police station in the middle of our population or near where the crimes are most an issue, not the edge. Does seem misguided. I think the new pipeline is needed as there are lots of old infrastructure that is near the end of it's useful life and this is allegedly one of them.

“New” City Manager? Been over a year since he was hired. Same tired old pamphlets and brochures at the reception desk touting a vibrant bustling Vallejo from 3 years ago. I don’t see that he has brought anything new to this town.

As much as I like Vallejo, we must state the truth, there is. I thing vibrant or bustling about Vallejo.

At the rate we are going we are heading towards bankruptcy again.

It's still a beautiful town. We just need better management of City funds

Watching Out is correct. Theres minimal crime on the waterfront. The VPD should be located in a high crime area. Or in the heart of town since we're required to come in to report most crimes.

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Thanks for fixing this request!

Thanks for saying thanks Carol
Today the homeless set fire to the buildings so this issue has been abated
And now the owner needs to bulldoze the buildings

Nice prediction. Seems like Vallejo PD and FD should be hiring someone like you to help them predict and prevent people breaking into empty buildings and setting fire to them. Obviously they don't haver the ability (interest?) to do that themselves.

These property owners probably fair better collecting from their insurance company.

Judas Priest, this has to stop, we’re not getting a response fast enough on issues like this. Besides being reported here, how many other people called the police department or 911?

Just looked at the history of this property on eTRAKiT, Eight different cases all stating disrepair, blight, trash & abandoned building. All the cases have .been closed. I included the last most recent entry for it on SCF and the response from code enforcement on ETRAKiT.

Issue ID: 3570081
Submitted To: City of Vallejo
Category: Code Enforcement, Exterior Private Property Maintenance
Viewed: 24 times
Neighborhood: Vallejo
Reported: on 07/18/2017
Tagged: trash, blighted property
DESCRIPTION
BOARDED UP FOR MONTHS! Blighted property for SALE for years? Whoever has there RUMMAGE SALES out of this location leaves garbage around for days!!! SICKENING

Automatic Assignment (Verified Official)
Automatic Assignment assigned this issue to Code Enforcement Division
07/18/2017 · Flag

CLOSED Code Enforcement Division (Verified Official)
Thank you for reporting! Senior Code Enforcement Officer Yoo has an active case on the property, case reference #CE16-1763. You may visit our online tracking system, eTRAKiT, to view updates on current cases at http://web.ci.vallejo.ca.us/eTRAKiT3/ (please allow several business days for information to upload). SeeClickFix is one of the many tools available to the citizens of Vallejo to report non-emergency issues. We “close” an issue in SeeClickFix once we've acknowledged the complaint; however, this issue is not "Closed" per se; it will remain an "Open" case with us until it is corrected. If there is anything else we can assist you with, please let us know. Thank you for using SeeClickFix!
07/18/2017 · Flag

Code Enforcement Division (Verified Official)
(The correct/legal address for this property is actually 1309 SONOMA BLVD).
07/18/2017 · Flag

Sharon (Registered User)
Thanks for fixing this issue!
07/18/2017 · Flag

aj (Registered User)
Thanks for the clarification and staying on it!!
07/18/2017 · Flag

eTRAKiT:
Case #: CE16-1763
Case Name: furniture, appliances and junk
Type: PMO
Subtype: CDBG
Officer: DONG M. YOO
Referred By:
Status: 4TH CIT
Opened: 7/7/2016
Closed:
Last Action: 11/5/2018
Follow Up: 3/19/2017
Audit

Vallejo went bankrupt because chronic, systemic financial mismanagement struggling to accomodate "public safety" union extortion. We learned nothing from that experience and are now driving full speed toward a repeat. The road to the new police waterfront Summer police will be over crumbling streets, lined with derelict mobile homes, and burned out businesses!

I guess the only ones in Vallejo that will have anything nice will be our fine police department which has a questionable history.

Questionable history? Any questions have been clearly answered. Just Google: "Vallejo Police"

Questionable? Check today's Times Herald:

Headline... "Ten members of the Vallejo Police Department will undertake a 300-mile bike ride representing Vallejo, and Solano County",

Headline... "Officer Amanda Blain signs autographs for third graders".

Not mentioned... "30-plus million for new waterfront police station..."

No coverage... "Arsonists hunted for four-alarm fire in an abandoned one-story commercial building"

Any questions?

Yeah, I have question and a suggestion: That ugly, Flintstonehenge, State Farm building standing empty is at real risk of being entered and vandalized by the transients who freely hang out along the waterfront. A fire there could also harm nearby senior citizen accommodation and residents. Why doesn't the city pre-emptively knock it down and turn it back into the lovely park it used to be?

Observer, are you referring to the building that the City Council Just agreed to purchase?

I don't believe that the State Farm Building is vacant, (yet),

The article stated that the building "once housed State Farm" so they've already relocated. I'm uncertain if other businesses rented iffice space there.

Yes, and didn't State Farm, at the time they moved here from their barely finished Fairfield building, confirm that their business model actually was to buy cheap, build cheap, occupy short-term, sell high, and move on. So that building was always fated to be ugly, empty, and totally out of character with our beautiful waterfront, and its historic, Victorian neighbors. My suggestion stands.

Canute Development fans may want to visit www.VallejoWaterfrontCoalition.org and read how much Joe Canute and State Farm ripped off our city.

Buildings like this one that burned should be demolished before this has a chance to happen. Squatters need to be removed promptly and property secured. We cannot allow these homeless folks to take over vacant properties.
General rule of thumb:
Where there are homeless, there are fires.

13 for new police departments
thats a waste of taxpayers money
how about occupy the old post office
or nissan dealership with little modifications

The bldg on Sonoma where people saw homeless living in is now totally burned down. It happened a couple of days ago and now simply needs to be cleaned up as it's now a huge bundle of burned up wood etc. Leaving our empty bldgs for such a long time is inviting homeless to moved in and eventually some will burn to the ground. Two major fires from homeless living in them is two too many so I think the City Officials (?) should do something about the empty bldgs and make the owners or previous owners do something with them. The city is just as responsible as anyone else is.

Why are you people on here goin back and forth about what the city should do!!?? GO TO A CITY MEETING AND EXPRESS ALL THIS bet you won’t do that!!! The city cant make someone rent out a building or pick it up and move it.... someof these comments are just smh!! Is there a turn off notification button omg... because until you go to these meeting nothing will change

Code Enforcement Division assigned this issue to Eli F., Neighborhood Law

Code Enforcement Division assigned this issue to Code Enforcement Division

Thank you for reporting! Sr. Code Enforcement Officer Yoo has an active case on the property, case reference #CE18-2718. You may visit our online tracking system, eTRAKiT, to view updates on current cases at http://web.ci.vallejo.ca.us/eTRAKiT3/ (please allow several business days for information to upload). SeeClickFix is one of the many tools available to the citizens of Vallejo to report non-emergency issues. We “close” an issue in SeeClickFix once we've acknowledged the complaint; however, this issue is not "Closed" per se; it will remain an "Open" case with us until it is corrected. If there is anything else we can assist you with, please let us know. Thank you for using SeeClickFix!

Does that mean CE16-1673 for the property is Closed?
Yes, the case from July 2016.