Benton County and ODOT are trying to balance many factors as they try to find the best potential alignment for the long-discussed bikeway and shared-use path between Albany and Corvallis.
Several big issues have to be resolved before there’s any chance that the long planned Albany-Corvallis bike and walking path along Highway 20 can be built.
The idea of building a roughly eight-mile bike path between Albany and Corvallis has been kicking around ever since the Benton County Commissioners mentioned it in 2003. Now the county and ODOT are once again hoping to determine a route the path could take.
Benton County officials will soon have to decide whether to allow the Coffin Butte landfill to expand. We all should think about the implications of that issue every time we throw something in the trash.
Remember the Albany-Corvallis bikeway that then Commissioner Linda Modrell of Benton County proposed in about 2004? Benton County and the state are still working on it, but its eventual completion looks very much in doubt.
It was in February that Benton County awarded a contract to replace the restroom in North Albany Park, but neither the demolition of the old one nor the new construction has begun. I wondered what was holding things up.
Church still hopes for permit approval
As expected, Northside Christian Church has not given up on its plan to build a church complex in a rural residential neighborhood outside the city limits in North Albany.
Tags: Benton County, conditional use permit, Northside Church, NW Powers Avenue