Let’s check in once again on Edgewater Village. There, the Albany urban renewal program has just increased its investment in the project, and construction is under way on the first two houses along the Dave Clark Path.
CARA backs new downtown B&B
Written April 21st, 2017 by Hasso Hering
Downtown Albany will once again offer bed-and-breakfast accommodations in one of the big historic houses downtown, and the CARA urban renewal district has decided to help.
Eagles offer to sell city their lodge
Written April 19th, 2017 by Hasso Hering
Albany’s urban renewal agency has received word of an offer by the Albany Eagles to sell the city their lodge, a property shown in a city plan as a key site to provide more downtown parking.
Gun bill’s effect: Nobody knows
Written April 19th, 2017 by Hasso Hering
It would be nice if Oregon legislators insisted on getting some facts instead of voting based on assumptions and emotions, as the Senate Judiciary Committee did on the gun-confiscation bill it passed, 3-2, on Tuesday.
Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: extreme risk protection orders, gun seizures, Oregon legislature, SB 719
Tags: extreme risk protection orders, gun seizures, Oregon legislature, SB 719
Students tackle bike path study
Written April 18th, 2017 by Hasso Hering
It was in 1973 that that a group of seniors at Oregon State University had an assignment of designing bikeways for the city of Albany, and the Periwinkle Bikepath was the result. Now another group of students, from the University of Oregon this time, has taken on a similar challenge. It may be too much to expect a similar […]
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Tags: bicycle transportation, Periwinkle Bikepath, Santiam Canal, Sustainable Cities
Tags: bicycle transportation, Periwinkle Bikepath, Santiam Canal, Sustainable Cities
Paddling permit bill still alive?
Written April 17th, 2017 by Hasso Hering
I didn’t think the canoe permit bill would get very far in the 2017 Oregon legislature, but Rep. Knute Buehler has just launched a petition against it on Facebook, so maybe this attempt at regulatory overreach is still alive.
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Wetlands: Remind you of Kafka?
The saga of Oregon’s regulation of dry land as “waters of the state” continues, this time in Millersburg, where the Department of State Lands has taken enforcement action on two subdivisions.
Tags: Department of State Lands, Kafka, Millersburg subdivisions, waters of the state, wetlands regulation