The continuing renovation of the “Spruce Apartments” in downtown Albany has cleared a procedural hurdle with the approval by the city’s Landmarks Advisory Commission.
Quick sale: Historic home gets new owner
Written August 6th, 2019 by Hasso Hering
Somebody is buying the historic house at 732 Fourth Ave. S.W., which sat vacant for years and became the subject of a city of Albany enforcement action in 2017 to clean up the overgrown yard.
A city ‘bed fee’ on assisted living?
Written August 2nd, 2019 by Hasso Hering
One of the ways that the Albany City Council might try to raise additional money is to charge assisted-living homes an extra fee beyond their city taxes. Whether this idea gets anywhere remains to be seen, but as of now it’s still on a list of nine potential new revenue sources the council has been […]
Hub City Village: To house Albany ‘unhoused’
Written July 31st, 2019 by Hasso Hering
How about this: A community of small cottages, each with room for one or two people, clustered on maybe an acre or so, with rents low enough that some of Albany’s residents with very small incomes could live there without fear of being thrown out on the street?
Tree disease claims Albany landmark elm
Written July 30th, 2019 by Hasso Hering
One of Albany’s “heritage trees,” an odd little elm in front of the Christian Science Reading Room at Seventh and Calapooia, has come down with an incurable disease and will have to come down, period.
An Albany soda tax? How Albany, CA, does it
Written July 26th, 2019 by Hasso Hering
If the Albany City Council is going to pursue a “soda tax” as a new source of city revenue, it might be of interest to look at how Albany, California, has dealt with such a tax.
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Groundwater pumping worries neighbor
Temporary wells are pumping water out of the ground at a street construction site near Albany’s Draperville neighborhood, and at least one resident there is worried this may lower the water table so her own well will no longer work. The city engineer says the risk of that happening is “very low.”
Tags: dewatering wells, Santa Maria Avenue, temporary wells