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Albany lists potential ‘climate friendly areas’

Written February 21st, 2023 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 10 responses.

Seven Albany neighborhoods are candidates for designation as “climate friendly areas” or CFAs, where zoning and development rules may be changed to allow more people to live there and a variety of business services to open up.

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‘Climate-friendly’ areas: An impossible goal

Written February 19th, 2023 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 9 responses.

Albany and other towns of similar size are under state orders to do something that’s impossible: to create “climate friendly areas” where people in the future won’t need cars to go to work or meet most other needs.

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How does this help with the ‘climate’?

Written November 18th, 2022 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 33 responses.

Oregon’s state land-use regulators are telling Albany, Corvallis and other cities above 50,000 population to designate “climate friendly” parts of town where people can live so they don’t need to drive to meet day-to-day needs.

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Rulers never rest: More work for planners

Written July 10th, 2022 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 10 responses.

Albany and seven other urban areas in Oregon are about to be hit with another land use planning rule from, well, from those who make the rules.

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