Cold rain did not exactly make Wednesday a great day for riding bike, but I managed to get out during an afternoon break in the storm.
More “middle housing,” so-called, is what is being built at Geary Street and 28th Avenue in Albany.
As you will have noticed if you have driven on Gibson Hill Road in North Albany, vertical construction started this month on Riverwood Crossing, the 80-lot “middle housing” development approved last year.
A residential subdivision in South Albany is turning out differently than when it was proposed and when the Albany Planning Commission approved it in 2019.
There’s a new sign by the side of Gibson Hill Road in North Albany. It signals that a planned 80-lot “middle housing” project is ready to go ahead and that its ownership has changed.
The City of Albany has received its second request to convert a single-family subdivision to “middle housing” at twice the density previously approved.
A subdivision of planned ‘entry-level’ houses
The streets have been paved, trees have been planted, and even the mail boxes are ready in the Honey Grove Subdivision in East Albany. Houses will come next.
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