In a couple of weeks, traffic should once again be flowing along the section of Salem Avenue between Albany Avenue and the railroad tracks, including the new “mini roundabout” at Waverly Drive.
With the summer sun low in the west, I took a bike ride Thursday night to take another look at the fast-disappearing farmland on Albany’s south side.
The Albany City Council Monday had a few questions, and then it agreed to have the staff draft an agreement under which the city would contribute $500,000 toward street construction for a platted subdivision in South Albany.
Before the rain started on Saturday, the bike took me to the corner of Columbus Street and Ellingson Road at Albany’s southern edge. On the acreage northwest of the corner, a Beaverton company wants to develop a 226-lot subdivision, and the city staff is proposing to contribute $500,000 to help get it started.
Trail controversy goes to Albany council
When Albany officials and consultants drew up the South Albany Area Plan in 2012, nobody objected to the notion of running a 10-foot-wide paved bike path through the Mennonite Village, the retirement community off Columbus Street.
Tags: bikeways, Mennonite Village, Oak Creek Loop Trail, South Albany Area Plan