Digging out my crawl space in West Oakland

[Pavan Gupta]

Hey! I've been very seriously considering digging out my basement in West Oakland, CA. It looks like the value per square foot is on the order of $700/sqft and the property has roughly 1000 square feet below. I'm curious about whether there are folks out here that have done this before? Or, perhaps better, know folks in the region who have experience permitting and executing against this sort of plan? It's still early days, but I'm rounding out another project in Oakland and it's starting to feel like now's the time to make this happen!

It seems like the first step may be to underestand how the city allows for this kind of action to take place.