His picture is at the link; you didn’t look?
Is it him?
No, but very similar. My wife says it isn't him. I have some sympathy for those folks in Oakland. At mom's house in SF, newcomers are welcome in the neighborhood but they shouldn't trample rights of long-time residents.
My wife has a girlfriend living in a house adjacent to the alleyway behind mom's house. The jerk was filing complaints to the city to harass my wife's friend because he wanted her to improve her property. He didn't like the looks of her house and yard. She is on limited income with bad health, still working in her 60s supporting her family and can't afford to do much. She does what she can. When the jerk filed a complaint on mom's yard I almost went postal on him. He had several chicken coops, with about 15 chickens and sometimes I had to chase them out of mom's yard. He dumped his construction debris behind mom's fence in the alley and I had been after him for a couple months to remove it. So I started shoveling the rocks and lumber into his flower beds and the fight was on. Our girlfriend's son said he would call the cops on him, I said don't bother it won't do any good. Cops came out and said they can't intervene, it was up to us neighbors to settle it ourselves, and they left. After I got into the guy's face and made it known he had more to lose than me, he backed off.
Mom and other long-time residents don't deserve to be treated like crap by newly-arrived yuppies who want changes outside their boundaries. I have nothing against people improving their property, I am all for it. I have about the best house on my block and have a neighbors crappy house next door that is the worst on the block. I don't force my preferences on anyone.