More loud construction noise from 1366 Broadway or one of the houses near it today. No response from city on this issue in 2 weeks. City has ignored this issue for half a month now. Not surprised in the slightest

First he was hammering now he's running some kind of power tools back there. I guess we're not getting any peace or quiet in our neighborhood at all today. Thanks Alameda!

He's continuing the nuisance today. Woke us up at around 8 AM this morning running something that sounds like a symphony of 30 chainsaws on steroids. It's so loud you can hear it for literally blocks. Attached video of what we had to wake up to at 8 AM today. It's now 9:30 AM and the noise is still continuing. I only got a couple hours of sleep thanks to this jerk.

Youtube video:
https://youtu.be/9I60qaTzKvA

It's now 10:10 AM. The noise hasn't stopped and has in fact gotten even worse. It sounds like there's even more of them running even more machinery now, and they've also started yelling at the top of their lungs and whistling on top of the loud machinery.

I have closed every window in my apartment, all of which are double pane. I can still hear them loud and clear even if I put earplugs in. How is it even remotely acceptable for this to happen so early in the morning every day for 2 weeks straight?

Some people don't have the luxury of sleeping at night since APD doesn't enforce noise ordinance and our neighbors are allowed to keep us awake all night, so now in the morning when things are finally quieting down we can't even get 1 or 2 hours of sleep without hearing loud machinery and screaming outside our bedroom window for hours on end?

This is pretty messed up. My physical health is being put in jeopardy by noise. I am literally sleep deprived. Sleep deprivation can cost your life. It's not a minor thing. This is no longer just a nuisance, it is a public health hazard.

Youtube video of continued noise, progressively growing louder, more prolonged and more severe every minute:

https://youtu.be/zlKPw0ITnkM

10:27 AM. It's still continuing and is even getting louder now

11:05 AM. Deafening construction noise from 1366 broadway is still continuing. Uninterrupted since ~ 8 AM. No sleep at all. No ability to have peace in your own home, ever.

Please call the Code Enforcement @ (510)747-6882 so a Code Enforcement Officer can gather further information regarding your complaint.

already did that this morning and left a voicemail. they didn't answer

1:08 PM. construction noise is still going. gonna have to call in sick to work today because i don't have the energy to function at work with the little sleep i got today. This is now impacting my job and my health. Thanks.

We are unable to verify the location where the work is taking place. Please contact Senior Code Enforcement Officer at 510 7476882 or by email at 0givens@alamedaca.gov

Monday, July 15th, 2019. 10:31 AM. They are still running loud machinery at that location and disturbing the peace

We are unable to verify the location where the work is taking place. Please contact Senior Code Enforcement Officer at 510 7476882 or by email at ogivens@alamedaca.gov

Monday, July 15th, 2019, 11:02 AM. They're now hammering on something

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2019. 11:30 AM

They are still continuing the nuisance construction. They spent about an hour repeatedly hammering on a shed. Dont think they have a permit

Amazing that its ok for them to do this for literally months

I just tried calling 510 7476882. It went to a recording saying the person is out of the office until October 4th. The recording said to leave a message, but then just disconnects after it plays leaving the caller with no ability to leave them a message. City government incompetent and useless as always.

So I think I found the general phone number for building permits, (510) 747-6830 and I tried calling it. Apparently unless you call them during a very specific and narrow time window (between 7:30 am - 8:30 am Monday through Thursday ) there is no way to get in touch with an inspector and the number doesnt even let you leave voicemails. J.e.s.u.s what a corrupt and worthless city government we have here.

510 747 6830 is the phone number to schedule an inspection. 510 747-6800 is the general number. We have followed up on each of your complaints and have been unable to verify any code violations. I can be reached at 510 747-6820. An I am at my desk currently.
Greg McFann
Building Official

Video of the noise today. ITs now 1 PM and he has been going since 10 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mIkAYAgVuA

Can Alameda Building Official/Mr. Greg McFann kindly please review the video footage I just uploaded so you can hear for yourself what I've been having to listen to every morning for hours on end for the last several months. Perhaps then you can verify the code violation and finally do something about this. I fail to understand how it is acceptable to have every single morning filled with 4 or 5 consecutive hours (or even more) of extremely loud, 100+ decibel hammering for several months in a row. There has to be a limit to how long they can keep doing this. Or is Alameda going to let them continue hammering all year long?

His dog has now joined in on the chorus of noise. The neglected German Shepard that the owner or tenant of 1362 broadway keeps permanently locked up in his back yard without any socialization is now barking again, so now in addition to a migraine-inducing 5 hour long hammering session, we also get to listen to barking now. Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSav1XMNohw

I even have a separate request reporting this problem on See Click Fix, which I originally reported about a year ago, but has continued unabated. The original request was fraudulently closed by an APD officer (They have a habit of fake closing massive amounts of requests on this site daily without resolving them) so I submitted it again 4 months ago here: https://seeclickfix.com/issues/6114835

To this day the problem continues unabated, just like this nuisance construction noise.

More footage of the continued construction noise, which is now continuing into 2 PM (4 hours straight)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3Lsm4reSaM

October 3rd, 2019. The construction noise is still continuing. They were hammering on stuff all day

October 4th, 2019. The construction noise is still continuing. They have been hammering on stuff all day once again since around 10 AM. Currently 11:54 AM and they are still going. Yesterday and the day before they kept going until after sundown

It's now 12:43 PM and they're still going. They will probably keep going until sundown again. Here is a video of the nuisance construction noise today:

https://youtu.be/x2xUuelTI1k

The hammering is getting even louder now

Imagine having to listen to 5-8 consecutive hours of this every day since July

https://youtu.be/ktyhdX3K33Q

It is giving us all a headache and it is violating our California state law-granted right to the quiet enjoyment of our homes.

He has had July, August and September to finish whatever construction he is doing there but he chooses to continue hammering and hammering for months. maybe he plans on doing this all year or maybe even all decade? Sadly residents seem to have no recourse. Seems like California state law and tenants rights mean nothing in Alameda.

October 4th, 2019. My home security cam recorded him starting the hammering at 8:42 AM. So he started it even earlier this morning and he continued all through the afternoon. This is every single day since June

I was waking up multiple times this morning but wasnt sure what was waking me up. At 10 AM I realized it was the hammering but I didnt know that was what was waking me up at 8 AM until now thanks to my security cam

Saturday, October 5th, 2019. 10:26 AM.

I just woke up to the sound of hammering outside. Looks like he's continuing the hammering even into the weekend. We can't even sleep in on the weekend now thanks to this a--hole.

Is the city going to pay the medical bills Ill incur because of how bad my health has suffered from all the sleep Ive lost as a direct result of this guy's abusive, daily, 6-consecutive-hour-long hammering sessions that continue every single day, even on weekends?

OR how about I go rent a quiet hotel room indefinitely and just send the city of Alameda the bill? Since you guys dont even want to let me live in my own home

The quiet enjoyment to one's home. A right that all tenants in California supposedly enjoy under state law.

Except in Alameda, our rights dont mean anything here

I just confirmed on my home security cam that he started the hammering around 9:30 AM, an hour before it finally woke me up.

Saturday, October 12th, 2019. 10:11 AM. My girlfriend and I just woke up to the sound of loud power drills and loud hammering from 1362 Broadway. Looks like that a-hole still isn't done and decided to wake us all up early on Saturday morning knowing that most of us were out late last night and is now depriving us of sleep. This has been going on since June of this year.

I was sleeping inside my apartment, wearing earplugs, with all of my double-pane windows closed and I even had a fan on. How loud do you suppose the construction at 1362 Broadway - which isn't even the same street I live on - had to be to actually wake me up out of a deep sleep like this with earplugs, a fan and double pane windows?

Here is just some brief footage of the stuff he's doing this morning. We have had to wake up to this every morning since June and he wont let us sleep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjqMtNou2OA

I would email copies of this video footage to the various city agencies Ive contacted about this but most of them dont provide an email address so the only place I can share the footage is here.

He continued hammering until this evening. The hammering was still continuing at 6 PM today. He started at 10 AM. He does it every single day, including weekdays and weekends

Sunday, October 13th, 2019. 9:08 AM. Looks like he's starting again. Can already hear him running power saws back there. We went out last night and didn't get home until around 2 AM. I went to bed as early as I could which was at 3 AM (I have trouble getting to sleep). We were woken up at 7 AM by our other neighbor who likes to harass us with loud rap music, and we couldn't go back to sleep. Now we're being kept awake at 9 AM by buzz saws.

Well, maybe I spoke too soon. It's actually been quiet there so far. I heard some buzz saws earlier but they stopped. Hoping he doesn't do any more hammering today. At least let us rest on Sunday

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The construction noise continued through December and early January. Fortunately it has been quiet today

This issue has been addressed.