The bike took me to Albany’s Bryant Park Wednesday. The park remains closed to vehicles because of the recent flooding, but people can get around the gates on foot or on two wheels.
Climate plan? They asked for comment
Written January 15th, 2025 by Hasso Hering
Oregon has a “Climate Action Commission.” Even though we don’t need this group, the legislature created it in 2007 as the Global Warming Commission and renamed it in 2023.
Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: climate action, climate commission, greenhouse gas emissions, Oregon regulators
Tags: climate action, climate commission, greenhouse gas emissions, Oregon regulators
Plan submitted for Albany housing project
Written January 13th, 2025 by Hasso Hering
Albany city planners are reviewing a site plan for a subsidized housing project facing Creel Avenue, a residential street one block south of the Walmart Supercenter.
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Tags: Albany city planning, Colonia Solidaridad, Creel Avenue, Farmworker Housing Development, housing, Spicer Drive
Tags: Albany city planning, Colonia Solidaridad, Creel Avenue, Farmworker Housing Development, housing, Spicer Drive
Where the ‘near future’ has not arrived
Written January 12th, 2025 by Hasso Hering
This dilapidated barricade and its vague promise of a street extension have been in place for more than a decade. Now the barricade is falling apart, and the future possibility mentioned in the sign has not yet arrived.
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Tags: 1albany streets, Adam Street, Blossom Lane, elevation, land use, road extension
Tags: 1albany streets, Adam Street, Blossom Lane, elevation, land use, road extension
Seeing the trash along our public paths
Written January 12th, 2025 by Hasso Hering
A trip along Albany’s creekside paths can be discouraging because of the mess that a few people leave behind. I was reminded of this on a bike ride down the Cox Creek Path on Jan. 6.
New housing, as seen on an Albany ride
Written January 9th, 2025 by Hasso Hering
On one of my bike rides around Albany the other day, I happened by chance to go past three construction sites that had one thing in common. They made use of sites to create new housing within established neighborhoods.
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The future of Maple Lawn? Just checking
What’s going to happen with Maple Lawn, the city-owned property at 1950 Salem Ave. S.E. that housed a preschool until last June? The short answer is that it will remain part of the Albany park system.
Tags: Albany City properties, Albany parks, former preschool, Maple Lawn, not surplus property, parks and recreation