Work has started to prepare a site for a proposed apartment development in North Albany between the western end of Hickory Street and the Albany-Corvallis Highway (Highway 20). The city planning department says it has issued a fill permit for the site. Developers have had a pre-application meeting with the department about what officials expect will be an apartment complex, but the developers have not yet filed a site plan. No word on the timing of the process or eventual construction.(hh)