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If you had plans to go Lake Merritt this weekend in Oakland, don't plan on driving there. The city of Oakland is prohibiting parking at the lake on weekends, beginning Friday through Memorial Day.

That is what Oakland city officials are encouraging the public to do after large groups have been crowding Lake Merritt.

City of Oakland workers spent the Valentine's Day evicting more than a dozen homeless people who have been camping by Lake Merritt.