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4-2 vote OKs change on Grand Prairie

Written November 6th, 2024 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 6 responses.

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.

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N. Albany project switches to 80 townhouses

Written April 8th, 2024 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 72 responses.

A North Albany subdivision originally approved for 22 single-family homes has been built to accommodate 80 townhouses instead.

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Hearings set on new apartment complex

Written January 16th, 2023 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 19 responses.

Owners of the former Mega Foods supermarket property are asking the City of Albany to approve dividing the 4.8-acre tract and to rezone the southern section to allow construction of 42 apartments.

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Land-use hearing on Sixth Ave. apartments

Written June 25th, 2021 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 7 responses.

The Albany Planning Commission will do something unusual Monday — considering permitting an apartment house that has been an apartment house for a long time.

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Albany code stalls downtown project

Written May 7th, 2015 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 3 responses.

Back on March 19, Albany’s downtown urban renewal board voted to support a project to renovate a tired old building on Third Avenue and build four townhouses next door. Since then the project has stalled because even though Albany wants more people to live and work downtown, city zoning and development codes say these townhouses-cum-offices can’t […]

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