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Tue, 04/05/2011 - 4:40pm
Step1: Create incentives and tax breaks for businesses to move into Downtown Albany/Lark St. Step2: Follow pricinciples of New Urbanism. Create jobs, turn the downtown into an attractive place...
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Tue, 03/22/2011 - 1:14pm
More efficient traffic lights. I am from southern New England, lived in Albany for 2 years now, and never have I seen such antiquated traffic signals in my life (i.e. Madison and New Scotland...
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Tue, 12/28/2010 - 5:17am
Don't ignore The Historic Pastures! The city of Albany has for years ignored a struggling home owners association which we pay taxes to the city of Albany! Keep us in your plans to develop Albany's...
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Wed, 12/22/2010 - 5:42pm
In the past two years, New York State has passed legislation that compliments the the Federal Historic Preservation Tax Incentives program and is intended to be used to open up funding for...
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Fri, 10/01/2010 - 12:58am
Several times a week I take a bag and clean up the mess from across the street and down from St Peter's Hospital. Is there a way to get refuse cans lets say , at St Peters, maybe at...
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Fri, 09/24/2010 - 6:07pm
Albany has had a hard time obey the few ecological reforms they do insitute -- witness the Pesticide Ordinance of 1998 which phased out Category I, II, and III pesticides over a period of 3 years,...
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Tue, 08/24/2010 - 6:50pm
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129281658&sc=fb&cc=...
This link is a story about places in Philly that have done large scale murals, just one more thing for Albany to...
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Mon, 06/21/2010 - 12:09pm
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Wed, 06/16/2010 - 1:52pm
Capital Joules* - A Barter Facilitation System
Draft - 6/16/10
What is it?
Capital Joules is an exchange system of credits and debits for labor performed. This program is designed to attract...
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Sun, 05/16/2010 - 3:44pm
We need to make lark street a bit more of a place that people can walk around and do it safely. We need more businesses and increased police force to stop the violence in Albany.
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Fri, 05/07/2010 - 9:21am
suggestions for albany 2030:
1) buses to albany's "wildernesses" e.g., tivoli park, heldeberg mts, washington park, corning park + its 5 public swimming pools. buses would have the destinations...
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Wed, 05/05/2010 - 4:16pm
In particular I agree with A. C. and D.
a Restoration of areas with vacant and abandoned buildings
c. Walkability (note drive through pharmacies and the new...
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Tue, 05/04/2010 - 6:53pm
May 4, 2010
Albany 2030,
I have been following the Albany2030 program with interest having lived my whole life in the City and have witnessed the changes in its "quality of life" character.
As a...
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Mon, 05/03/2010 - 12:50pm
In Albany, skateboarding is illegal. Albany must provide a free, public, concrete skatepark for kids and adult skateboarders, as the City does for basketball, softball, tennis, soccer and other...
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Thu, 04/29/2010 - 11:07pm
http://www.jamieoliver.com/campaigns/jamies-food-revolution/school-food
consider including some of the ideas from here for the school lunch program.
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Mon, 04/19/2010 - 12:20pm
One of the most difficult things for me about Albany is the general ugliness of the streetscape in many places. I love my neighborhood, and the houses are basically great houses, but the recent...
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Wed, 04/14/2010 - 9:48am
I was raised on Lexington Ave. & Central in the 50'-60's. It was a great neighborhood along with Washington Park we never had to leave it for anything. I am now employed in a position on Central...
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Fri, 03/12/2010 - 11:13am
When I think of walkable area cities, I obviously think about Saratoga Springs, now joined by Troy and Schenectady. If travelling to any of those cities, one thinks of parking the car, and...
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Fri, 02/19/2010 - 12:50pm
Here is the vision we generated at our house party:
In 2030, Albany is along a path to meeting its own needs locally: It made it out of the economic transition by focusing on green jobs: improving...
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Wed, 02/10/2010 - 10:27pm
1. Albany issues and opportunities including but not limited to:
a. Restoration of areas with vacant and abandoned buildings
b. ...
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