Albany city planners are reviewing a site plan for a subsidized housing project facing Creel Avenue, a residential street one block south of the Walmart Supercenter.
Two Albany proposals to promote subsidized housing will get another look before they are enacted. And if they get improved as a result, part of the credit goes to Councilwoman Matilda Novak even though she’s no longer on the council.
A corner lot near the Albany waterfront may become the site of a four-plex of townhouses if a plan submitted to the city planning division is carried out.
On Nov. 7 the Albany Landmarks Commission heard from an applicant that the city had fined him $301,000 for failing to get building permits for fixing up an old apartment house. The fine has been sharply reduced, but there’s a story here.
Albany city officials would like developers to build housing that more people can afford. To that end, the city council is talking about taking three steps, one of which is enacting an excise tax on new construction.
Residents south of Grand Prairie Road just learned what people elsewhere in Albany learned before: You can’t rely on comprehensive plans or zoning to keep your neighborhood composed of only single-family homes.
Albany pushes to add houses and density
On a bike ride last week, I passed a building under construction on Southwest Queen Avenue that struck me as being in line with Albany’s continued effort to increase housing density in residential districts.
Tags: comprehensive plan, density, Development code, dwellings, housing, zoning