You wouldn’t think that replacing four wooden steps at your back door would require a public hearing, but in Albany’s downtown historic district it does. So does replacing a rear door on another building not far from those steps.
Change the rules on historic review
Written January 8th, 2019 by Hasso Hering
On Dec. 5 the Albany Landmarks Advisory Commission held a public hearing and approved the installation of a bakery’s exterior vent. Why a hearing and all the bureaucracy that goes with it for such a routine item? That’s a question the city council might want to ponder and then do something about.
Old house fix-up OK’d, barely
Written October 6th, 2016 by Hasso Hering
The owners of a rattletrap old house in Albany’s Monteith Historic District have won approval to renovate the place, but it was a close call that threatened to get hung up on the material in new windows.
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Tags: 640 Third SW, Albany Landmarks, Historic buildings, Monteith Historic District, Ostby
Tags: 640 Third SW, Albany Landmarks, Historic buildings, Monteith Historic District, Ostby
‘Spruce’ apartments clear Landmarks review
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.
Tags: Albany housing, Albany Landmarks, Scott Lepman, The Spruce