Albany’s public works maintenance crew has been patching some of the worst potholed streets each summer. With a new machine the city council voted Wednesday to buy, they might be able to do a few more in each of the paving seasons to come.
On a bike ride through downtown Albany in mid-April, I stopped on the former Wells Fargo Bank property, wondering what happened to the plan for redevelopment of the site. Members of the city council are wondering too.
The Albany City Council has voted to sue somebody, apparently, but the members evidently don’t want the public to know the details, such as who and why.
As ordered by the state bureaucracy, Albany will have five so-called “climate friendly areas,” but not quite yet. At least one council member thinks it’s a bad idea for Albany.
Next week the Albany City Council will again be asked to consider disposing of four city-owned vacant lots, three of them near the Helping Hands homeless shelter and one close to the riverfront.
This may sound familiar: City planners and developers set aside a pedestrian connection to make walking easier. The path becomes a nuisance to the neighbors, and now the question is: Keep the path open for walkers or close it for the neighbors?
On shopping carts, Albany tries again
For years Albany has struggled with stolen shopping carts being abandoned all over the place. Now the city will try something new.
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