The Activate Oakland Event Sponsorship Program is a new program launched in 2023, administered by Visit Oakland in partnership with the City of Oakland Economic and Workforce Development Department, intended to activate public spaces and support community events in Oakland’s downtown, neighborhoods, and commercial areas. The program provides funding, marketing and technical assistance for events and activations that support Oakland’s commercial districts, small businesses, and arts and culture community.
This project will make improvements on Franklin Street from 11th Street to Broadway, and 22nd Street from Broadway to Telegraph, to slow traffic and add a two-way separated bike lane to create a connected grid of slow calm streets for people walking and biking in Downtown Oakland.
The purpose of the Local Roadmaps to Community Resilience pilot project (LR2CR) is to support community as members come together to develop a strategic plan (or roadmap) that can be used to guide future actions aimed at increasing the overall resiliency of a specific neighborhood. Check this page periodically for project updates and deliverables.
Improving parking availability and access to businesses by adjusting meter rates according to demand.
Community engagement team (CET) members are individuals with lived experience and deep community ties. CET members perform outreach to individuals and families in hot spot areas in order to proactively mediate conflicts and engage individuals in services, deliver cognitive behavioral skills training, and connect individuals to needed services.
Family Coaching is a program offered directly by the DVP to high-risk individuals and their families. Coaches and families practice constructive ways of problem solving, communicating, and making decisions that they are able to apply to any problem the family needs to address, including exposure to violence. This work will strengthen relationships between family members inside and outside the home from multiple generations in order to increase family cohesion, pride, and sources of support.
Crisis responders from the DVP and violence interrupters from DVP-funded organizations respond within one hour of activation to shootings in Oakland that are related to network conflicts or gender-based violence (GBV). This process is known as the Triangle Incident Response, and it is initiated when the DVP receives a notification of a shooting from the Oakland Police Department. The DVP maintains a staff of three individuals who respond to incidents related to network conflicts and three individuals who respond to incidents related to GBV. These staff are assigned to respond on a rotating schedule by day of the week, with one network responder and one GBV responder on call at all times. Violence interrupters employed by DVP-funded organizations are similarly assigned to respond based on days of the week and regions of Oakland.
School Violence Intervention and Prevention (VIP) Teams offer life coaching, gender-based violence education and support, violence interruption and mediation, and community healing services at 7 Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) high schools (Castlemont High School, Dewey Academy, Fremont High School, McClymonds High School, Oakland High School, Ralph Bunche Academy, and Rudsdale Continuation School.)
E 18th Street to El Embarcadero
Enhancing local and regional transit connections and improving the bike network in Jack London.
Providing transformative improvements to four freeway undercrossings
Case Numbers: PLN18407 and PLN18407-ER01
The proposed project would develop approximately 2.6 acres of a currently undeveloped 20-acre parcel in the eastern hills of Oakland into a cluster of single-family homes, with associated landscaping and new residential street. The remainder of the property, approximately 17.4 acres would be provided, and maintained in perpetuity by developer and/or their successor entity, as conservation open space.
The California College of Arts (CCA) Oakland Campus site is proposed for redevelopment with 448 residential units in two buildings and preservation of the Treadwell Estate, a City of Oakland Landmark.
Third-party Excavation (x) Permits are required before excavating the public right-of-way. An additional Obstruction Permit is required before blocking or obstructing any street parking, curb/gutter, sidewalk, or traffic lane.