You wouldn’t think that replacing four wooden steps at your back door would require a public hearing, but in Albany’s downtown historic district it does. So does replacing a rear door on another building not far from those steps.
Next on the riverfront: Hiring consultants
Written July 5th, 2019 by Hasso Hering
Albany is getting ready to pick a firm of consultants to design a remake of the city’s Willamette riverfront from Washington Street in the west to Main Street in the east.
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Tags: Albany urban renewal, ARA, CARA, Greenworks, riverfront development, Walker/Macy, Water Avenue
Tags: Albany urban renewal, ARA, CARA, Greenworks, riverfront development, Walker/Macy, Water Avenue
More kinds of housing may be in store
Written July 3rd, 2019 by Hasso Hering
The legislature wants Albany and other Oregon cities to allow more housing, and different kinds of housing, to be built in the space available, which makes sense. But instead of easing up on Oregon’s insanely convoluted land-use laws, it has added new complications with House Bill 2001.
Welcome to Albany: Sign’s getting replaced
Written July 2nd, 2019 by Hasso Hering
Chances are drivers heading for the Ellsworth Street bridge on Highway 20 don’t need a sign to tell them they are entering Albany. But whether they do or don’t, the sign welcoming them to town is gone.
Takena Landing: A gravel bar and boulders
Written July 2nd, 2019 by Hasso Hering
Launching and retrieving boats at Albany’s Takena Landing Park has become a bit more complicated this summer. Low water in the Willamette River has exposed a gravel bar blocking the end of the ramp, and there may be underwater obstacles as well.
The power of lightning, but golf goes on
Written July 1st, 2019 by Hasso Hering
On Monday, the Golf Club of Oregon in North Albany was still showing the effects of what lightning can do — and what it did last Wednesday.
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Council to lend food company $744,000
The Albany city budget is so tight over the next two years that a few positions in police and other departments are going unfilled. But this does not apply to the city’s reserve fund that’s available to goose the local economy.