Comments on: Manicure EMERGENCY in Oakland!

By: Born in Oakland

Born in Oakland — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:03:32 +0000

I like the names of nail salons – Happy, Pretty, Nice, Lucky, etc. These upbeat stores can transform Oakland into the happy, pretty, nice and lucky place we would all like to see. And our citizens will be happy, pretty, nice and lucky as well! Economic development does work. Hail to the free market!

By: Naomi Schiff

Naomi Schiff — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:53:20 +0000

Seems like a laundromat would be a more logical business to launder money than a nail salon, doesn’t it, oh pleeze?

If we all just made lists of businesses we didn’t like we’d end up with nothing. I always admired the weird shops of Manhattan where you can’t figure out exactly what business they are in. Strange dusty shops with a bolt of lace trim, twelve boxes of shoe polish, some unlabelled boxes of uniform size, and maybe a pair of skiis.

By: mike spencer

mike spencer — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:34:45 +0000

Hey Livegreen, places like upper Park will raise rents and those salons will move as more high-end stuff replaces them.. I would still rather see a nail salon than vacant store fronts in Oakland. ( In related news, the nail salon “Hand Job” has opened in San Francisco.)

By: dave o

dave o — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:29:21 +0000

A few months ago, I heard a guy get wasted on Telegraph by some heavy automatic, something like an AK. Little did I know at the time that the real threat to the community was coming from that new laundromat opening across the street on 29th and Telegraph. This resolution is yet more obvious class warfare against poor people in Oakland. Like, can’t we all just live together? Does gentrification have to be mean spirited? Can’t it just happen in a slow organic way, if it was meant to happen? Does it have to be forced by state power? What about all the banks downtown? Do we really need so many? This kind of planning is a hell for those targeted. And the planners are obviously clueless about what to encourage. Look at the collapse of real estate and the collapse of auto row, both heavily promoted.

By: oh pleeze

oh pleeze — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:25:21 +0000

Re: Aren’t nail shops and laundromats self limiting?
Not if you look on lower grand ave.

Re: What’s wrong with Nail Salons?
Let’s aks why Council is opposed to nail salons, which is, I believe, why the teapot has become tempestuous. *SOME* Nail and hair salons and laundromats launder money for the drug trade (and yes, there was one on lower grand that was under police surveillance–no customers in the chairs in front, but about a dozen guys in the back room with a bank of phones.)

Will banning nail and hair and laundry salons get rid of money laundering? Hahahaha! It’ll drive the legitimate salons out. It won’t stop drug dealing or money laundering.

Will banning businesses that might facilitate criminal activities make it easier on our police. Again, Hahahaha. If the city’s business licensing can’t monitor these places, the cops sure won’t.

The economic reality? Oakland will take a bigger economic hit by proscribing salons and laundries: Legitimate salons will go elsewhere and Oakland’s citizens, and their cash, will follow.

Ironic, isn’t it? Businesses that strive to keep people clean and looking good are targeted by a city that bewails it’s own poor image.

By: livegreen

livegreen — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 03:19:01 +0000

Mike, since you use Park Blvd. as an example, do you really think they’d have a hard time finding other businesses to locate there? Your example might be appropriate for other areas, but not there.

I think Glenview was recently voted best new Gourmet Ghetto in EB Express. & that’s BEFORE A Cote opens their new restaurant there…

Besides who needs 3 or 4 Pedicure places within 2 blocks of each other anyway? Thinking of which, maybe that why IDLF is doing this.

I am curious, though, why it’s considered an “emergency”. V, did you ask IDLF’s office?

By: Mike Spencer

Mike Spencer — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:36:12 +0000

What’s uglier, a well-maintained hair or nail salon or another vacant business? Park Boulevard and upper Fruitvale Avenue have several nail salons that really aren’t eyesores. Until some other, “better” business comes along I have no problem with nail salons and barber shops.

By: Barry K

Barry K — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:01:31 +0000

New legislation puts teeth into beauty salon regulation (Marin Independent Journal)

http://dist08.casen.govoffice.com/index.asp?Type=B_PR&SEC={251E8667-1DCB-4770-8F9E-C8464E3469CB}&DE={0798D092-C76E-43EA-A7CF-4358C2CE35D8}

CITATION STANDARDS AT A GLANCE

Nail salons may be cited under AB 409 if certain sanitary conditions are not met, such as if the shop’s pedicure foot spas, basins or tubs are not clean or if debris is found upon the removal of screens. Officials also must determine if the cleaning material for disinfecting manicure/pedicure equipment is adequate; if there are pedicure cleaning logs; if there is a history of health violations; and if equipment is clean, according to the state Department of Consumer Affairs.

NAIL SALONS BY THE NUMBERS

Nail salons by the numbers, 2006-2007:
Number of licensed salons in Marin: 376
Number of licensed salons in California: 37,000
Total number of inspectors statewide: 17
Total number of inspections in Marin: 106
Number of citations issued in Marin: 65
Number of licensed manicurists and cosmetologists statewide: 290,000

Sources: California State Board of Barbering and Cosmetology; office of state Sen. Leland

By: Barry K

Barry K — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:58:42 +0000

This makes a nice distraction by and/or for the Council.
Last Oct, they held a collective $9,000,000 in Pay-Go; and the annual payout to each Council Member was not cut for 2009-2010.
No cuts to the car allowance program. No cuts to their travel. No cuts to Council or Mayoral staffs. (Sorry, furlough’s don’t count.)

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:56:50 +0000

It’s obvious — the Bey family must be moving into nail salons and laundromats now.