On Thursday evening I got off the bike and looked around near the Ninth Avenue ramp on the south side of the Pacific Boulevard viaduct in Albany. The site had been almost completely cleaned up.
Squalor on our streets: What must be done
Written September 14th, 2024 by Hasso Hering
Saturday was their deadline for leaving, and by the afternoon people seemed to be getting ready to move their improvised shelters from the state property near the Ninth Avenue off-ramp on Pacific Boulevard.
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Tags: encampments, homeless camps, homeless solution, Ninth an Pacific, Ninth off-rap, ODOT property
Tags: encampments, homeless camps, homeless solution, Ninth an Pacific, Ninth off-rap, ODOT property
Albany to start enforcing camping ban
Written September 9th, 2024 by Hasso Hering
The City of Albany says it is about to start enforcing its revised ban on unauthorized camping on public property. The new regulations took effect one month after the city council adopted them on Aug. 7.
Cities face new mandate on river trash
Written April 21st, 2024 by Hasso Hering
As if cities like Albany don’t have enough to do, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality is proposing to list sections of the Willamette River as “impaired” by trash. This will trigger new regulations under the federal Clean Water Act, and cities likely will bear the brunt of a new mandate.
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Tags: DEQ, environmental Quality, homeless camps, river trash, vagrant camps, volunteer cleanups, Wilalmette Riverkeeper, Willamette River
Tags: DEQ, environmental Quality, homeless camps, river trash, vagrant camps, volunteer cleanups, Wilalmette Riverkeeper, Willamette River
What you see on the Perwinkle Bikepath
Written July 30th, 2023 by Hasso Hering
One of my bike routes through Albany takes me along the Perwinkle Bikepath, and on it you can see different kind of sights, from wildlife to trash.
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Tags: homeless camps, Periwinkle Bikepath, Periwinkle Creek, trash, turkeys, wildlife
Tags: homeless camps, Periwinkle Bikepath, Periwinkle Creek, trash, turkeys, wildlife
Preparing Albany’s camp site for homeless
Written June 14th, 2023 by Hasso Hering
A bike ride Wednesday took me past the vacant lot at 503 Ninth Ave. S.E., where the city of Albany plans to have homeless people camp if they can’t or won’t go to a shelter.
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Tags: city camping sites, homeless, homeless camps, Ninth and Jackson, Oregon homeless
Tags: city camping sites, homeless, homeless camps, Ninth and Jackson, Oregon homeless
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Still needed, a suitable place to set up camp
If we don’t want people setting up tents along Albany’s public paths, we’ll have to come up with another place for them to go whether we like it or not.
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