The Albany Community Development Department is reviewing plans for a new medical building which, according to the drawings, will house a dialysis center, part of a large nationwide chain.
New attack on crimes and messes
Written March 13th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
Albany officials are poised to get tough — or tougher — on abandoned vehicles and houses, and on behavior that drags down the quality of life especially in the central part of town. You might call it a combined campaign against crime and the messes people leave behind.
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Tags: Albany homeless, enhanced law enforcement area, exclusion zone, vagrancy
Tags: Albany homeless, enhanced law enforcement area, exclusion zone, vagrancy
Why the ‘blessing box’ is gone
Written March 12th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
It began as a private project to help people in need. But it became a nuisance and even a threat to the woman who started it. So now her “blessing box” is gone.
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Tags: Albany homeless, blessing box. Christine Withers Rayburn, homeless
Tags: Albany homeless, blessing box. Christine Withers Rayburn, homeless
South renovation calls for fences
Written March 9th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
When they’re finished with renovations that include various 8-foot-tall fences, South Albany High School will no longer have the porous campus it has today. It will no longer be open to uncontrolled access all over the place.
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Tags: Albany Public Schools, Albany school bond projects, conditional use request for South, school security, South Albany renovations
Tags: Albany Public Schools, Albany school bond projects, conditional use request for South, school security, South Albany renovations
‘Ridiculous, trashy’ barbed wire
Written March 7th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
Jim Ketter doesn’t know how much longer his brain tumor will allow him to live. Before he goes, he’d like the city of Albany to do something about the fencing that lines the Santiam Canal.
As for ‘livability,’ it doesn’t count
Written March 6th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
New Albany subdivisions have to meet six criteria in order to be approved. But there is no mention of preventing crowding, or congestion at rush hour, or saving wildlife, or anything else that comes under the admittedly vague concept of preserving livability.
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Tags: Albany Planning Commission, development code criteria, North Albany congestion, North Albany subdivisions, Pheasant Run
Tags: Albany Planning Commission, development code criteria, North Albany congestion, North Albany subdivisions, Pheasant Run
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Vagrancy laws stall at city council
A proposed crackdown on crime and other problems associated with vagrancy in Albany turned into a public debate before the Albany City Council Wednesday about what to do — and not to do — about the homeless.
Tags: Albany homeless, camping ban, exclusion zone, vagrancy