Several times over the years, I have reported on the super-messy conditions of the Periwinkle Bikepath, especially the north end that is walled off from the Lowe’s home improvement center. So it was a surprise to see how clean it was when the bike took me there on April 26.
The Albany Planning Division is preparing paperwork on a proposed subdivision of 80 townhouses off Gibson Hill Road in North Albany. Some people are upset about the project, but state law allows it and there’s not much they can do to prevent it.
According to the Albany Police Department’s speed trailer, North Albany Road near Quarry Road was a sometime speedway during the last week of July 2023.
You may not notice this when you just drive across the Ellsworth Street Bridge. But work on raising the height clearance — unseen by daytime traffic — is actually going on.
Having been away for a week, I took the bike back to the Albany Waterfront Project on Friday. As I had expected, my usual point of access to the Dave Clark Riverfront Path had been torn up.
It was last June that I stopped by SamFit in North Albany intending to do a story on when the place would reopen following a fire. Now Samaritan Health Services has announced the date: This coming Tuesday, April 30.
Imagine three hundred houses here instead
Albany’s East Thornton Lake Natural Area looks particularly pastoral this spring. The area remains open, with flowers and trees instead of houses and streets, because of the foresight of four city council members in 2010.
Tags: development, East Thornton Lake, land use, natural area, North Albany, subdivisions