Sunrise Park

Sunrise upgrade: Pretty soon now

Written January 8th, 2018 by Hasso Hering

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If you’re wondering what happened to the long-gestating plans to renovate Albany’s Sunrise Park, wonder no more. The city parks department hopes to call for bids on the project by the first week of February.

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Tags: Albany block grant program, Albany parks, Sunrise Park, wetlands

Sunrise Park: Renovation in sight

Written April 17th, 2017 by Hasso Hering

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The renovation of Sunrise Park, first considered in 2013, is finally scheduled to take place this year now that the city of Albany has obtained the required permits and spent $38,000 in federal antipoverty grant money to make up for the loss of a patch of so-called “wetlands.”

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Tags: Community Development Block Grants, Sunrise Park, wetland bank, wetlands

Does this look like a swamp?

Written June 28th, 2016 by Hasso Hering

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You’re looking at the playground in Albany’s Sunrise Park. But it’s more than that. It’s also an exhibit in the story of how bureaucracy expands when it’s allowed to distort a well-intended law.

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Tags: Department of State Lands, Sunrise Park, wetlands

More ‘wetlands’ insanity

Written February 21st, 2015 by Hasso Hering

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Somebody ought to add up all the public money that has been wasted over the years on studying or “mitigating” phony wetlands, that is, lands that are neither wet nor serve any of the functions of true wetlands. I’m thinking of this because in Albany now, we have yet another case.

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Tags: Alany Parks Department, Albany Human Relations Commission, Sunrise Park, wetland, wetlands mitigation banks