Once again the Albany City Council wrestled Wednesday with allowing accessory dwelling units (ADUs), which is hard to understand since the city already allows them in most areas and hardly anybody is putting them in.
A new home for six women
Written October 9th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
Albany Helping Hands is preparing to remodel a house in the Willamette Neighborhood for six women who can’t find anywhere else to live.
N. Albany apartments: Open and planned
Written September 10th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
The second apartment development to be proposed in North Albany has just won city approval, so I was wondering how things had worked out at the first.
Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Albany housing, apartments, Charles Weathers, Hickory Hollow, Sunset Village
Tags: Albany housing, apartments, Charles Weathers, Hickory Hollow, Sunset Village
Another look at those big oaks
Written June 2nd, 2018 by Hasso Hering
On a ride around North Albany the other day, I took another look at the site of the Pheasant Run subdivision the city council approved last month over the objections of neighbors who testified at a public hearing. When the subdivision proposal was announced in February, I took photos that showed the trees in winter. […]
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Tags: Albany housing, North Albany subdivision, Pheasant Run, tree preservation
Tags: Albany housing, North Albany subdivision, Pheasant Run, tree preservation
Another N. Albany apartment project
Written May 4th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
The Albany planning division has notified neighbors of a developer’s plan to build 40 apartments of “family housing” on Hickory Street in North Albany.
Another house closed as unsafe
Written April 16th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
One of my regular bike routes takes me around the corner of First and Columbus in east Albany. This week a house there had been boarded up “by order of the Albany Police Department,” according to the stencils on the plywood sheets covering the windows. Kristopher Schendel, the code compliance officer in the police department, […]
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Tags: Albany code enforcement, Albany housing, boarded-up houses, dangerous buildings
Tags: Albany code enforcement, Albany housing, boarded-up houses, dangerous buildings
The transformation of N. Albany
Written May 31st, 2014 by Hasso Hering
This looks like exactly what it is, a big construction site on what used to be an undeveloped North Albany hillside. They are putting in streets and utilities for 71 single-family houses in Phase III of the Benton Woods Subdivision. So the transformation of North Albany continues. What used to be a rural residential area with fields and […]
Old oaks: Enjoy the view while you can
On a ride this past Sunday, I stopped to get a shot of this old oak north of Dover Avenue in North Albany. You won’t get this view for much longer, for the tree is set to come down when the Pheasant Run subdivision is built.
Tags: Albany housing, Hayden Homes, North Albany development, Pheasant Run subdivision