Albany Planning Commission

Albany ADUs can be mobile homes

Written January 6th, 2019 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 11 responses.

The Albany City Council gets another chance this week to pass a code change to allow detached “accessory dwelling units” — essentially small second houses –on all single-family residential lots in line with a state mandate.

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Tags: accessory dwelling units, ADUs, Albany and ADUs, Albany council, Albany Planning Commission, tiny houses as ADUs

As for ‘livability,’ it doesn’t count

Written March 6th, 2018 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 11 responses.

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

GAPS plans new bus garage

Written February 19th, 2018 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 3 responses.

Leaders of the Greater Albany Public Schools have been planning for a bigger depot to park and maintain the district’s buses. Now the project is up for the city’s and the public’s review.

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Tags: Albany Planning Commission, Albany Public Schools, Ferry Street rezoning, GAPS bus garage, Lepman storage depot

NA apartment plan clears hurdle

Written July 10th, 2017 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 13 responses.

The neighbors may not like it, but the Albany Planning Commission on Monday approved the site plan for Hickory Hollow, a 48-unit apartment complex behind five single-family houses facing Hickory Street.

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Tags: Albany Planning Commission, Charles Weathers, Hickory Hollow

Neighbors appeal NA apartments

Written July 1st, 2017 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 3 responses.

Building apartments in North Albany is tougher than the zoning makes it appear, as shown by an appeal against the first such project the city staff has approved.

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Tags: Albany Planning Commission, Hickory Hollow

NE Albany: Plat adds 142 houses

Written May 15th, 2017 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 8 responses.

This is at the corner of Somerset Drive and Timber Ridge in northeast Albany, and those wide open spaces won’t be quite that wide open for long.

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Tags: Albany Planning Commission, MBBH Development, Somerset Subdivision

NA zone change runs into opposition

Written March 6th, 2017 by Hasso Hering

Comments: no responses.

A rezoning request to allow medium- and high-density housing near the North Albany Village commercial center is not exactly popular with at least some nearby residents, judging by the turnout at a public hearing before the Albany Planning Commission Monday night.

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Tags: Albany Planning Commission, North Albany rezoning, Winkler zoning request

Church proposed on Gibson Hill

Written February 2nd, 2017 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 12 responses.

Gibson Hill in North Albany would take on a new look if plans by the Saint Anne’s congregation take form. The hill would be crowned by a domed church to house the Eastern Orthodox church that now worships in a former grange hall in Lewisburg.

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Tags: Albany Planning Commission, Gibson Hill, Saint Anne, Stephen Soot

Highway access? No problem!

Written November 17th, 2015 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 12 responses.

Well, if there ever are problems with access to the highway from Albany’s new police headquarters, they can always try this as Plan B. Not really, but the issue caught the satirical eye of Darrell Pepper, the retired chief of police who dabbles as a cartoonist.

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Tags: Albany Planning Commission, Albany police and fire stations, Albany public safety

A safe place for homeless youth

Written May 31st, 2015 by Hasso Hering

Comments: no responses.

An overnight shelter for homeless youth has been talked about in Albany for years. Now it’s about to become a reality, which I discovered when I was perusing the online records of the city planning commission the other day.

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Tags: Albany Planning Commission, Albany youth shelter, Jackson Street Youth Shelter