Photo: Kristina Wagner, January 22, 2015. This week, earth work began for a duplex at 2612-2614 Corralitas Drive. (Click on photo to enlarge.)
After only 3 days of construction, the neighbors are already fed up. Complaints came in a steady stream to me from neighbors... street blocked; not allowing neighbors to drive up the hill to turn around; failure to control "fugitive dust" in an area where the wind comes up every day around 1:30 PM, carrying the dirt all the way up the street; no water of their own because it's not hooked up yet; workers' trucks parked on the sidewalk completely blocking it, including parking in the red zone on a blind corner; no sidewalk access on the blind corner.
A couple of the neighbors asked to speak to an on-site supervisor about parking & street access. Workers ignored their request.
Neighbors began calling Parking Enforcement and Building & Safety. At least one neighbor has called the contractor with these issues. According to the neighbor, none of his promises have been kept.
Corralitas Drive is a narrow, winding ,substandard Hillside street. It is not a through street, with limited parking. It's also a No Parking on Red Flag Days street. Let's hope they hired people who've built in the hills before or this could be one of those projects that takes 5 years to complete.