HASSO HERING

A perspective from Oregon’s mid-Willamette Valley

On appeal: Apartment complex on 53rd

Written March 18th, 2026 by Hasso Hering

How much sense does it make to route traffic from a big apartment complex through the middle of the Lakeshore Lanes bowling alley and mini-golf property in southwest Albany?


Verizon customers skip hearing

Written August 28th, 2014 by Hasso Hering

If Verizon customers around southwest Albany want better reception, as some say they do, they should have shown up at Wednesday’s public hearing before the city council and supported the company’s application to to build a 120-foot cell tower near Pacific Boulevard and 53rd Avenue. But they didn’t.


 
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