With a goal of getting community input to help generate the West Oakland Specific Plan - a strategic plan that will define parameters of development in the neighborhood for years to come - the city of Oaklan

Thinking about planting a garden this spring? Many West Oakland residents are doing the same - unaware that there is lead and cadmium in the soil and perhaps an old gasoline tank right under their driveway. When the soil is contaminated, it's hard for any neighborhood to improve its economic lot.