CHPE has deed agreements totaling over $2 million in compensation with close to 60 Albany County property owners, some of whom received no remuneration, like the county itself, to others who accepted over $1.2 million for their troubles, like the Northeastern Industrial Park. 

The recommendations are a synthesis of input from the public, topic-specific subcommittees, and the committee itself, as well as consultant MJ Engineering; the consultant’s participation in the process has been questioned and criticized. 

The town’s zoning board of appeals in December approved two variances for the proposed multi-family residential development at 2080 New Scotland Road, granting relief from all on-street parking required on both sides of the street and from a requirement for bike lanes. 

Project developer Mason Scholtes is proposing five duplexes along Carman Road and 12 cottages set up in a “pocket neighborhood” along Fuller Station Road. 

In the month since an Albany County court judge sided with Pyramid in its tax certiorari case against the town, both plaintiff and defendant have decided to appeal acting county Supreme Court Justice David Weinstein’s Dec. 13 decision, which ordered that Crossgates’ 2020 assessed value be lowered to $258 million and its 2020 assessment be dropped to $177 million.

Called Guilderland Live Poultry and Grocery in its application to the town, the market would offer “meat from live poultry” as well as “condiments and spices and related requirements for food preparation.”

On Wednesday, the Guilderland Planning Board began its site-plan review of New York Oncology Hematology’s proposed Western Avenue regional cancer center. 

At issue is the town’s decision to change providers from CDPHP to Humana, which Anne Tucker Rose, Guilderland’s supervisor for a period in the 1990s, said no longer allows her to see her pulmonologist of 30 years.

In a press release drumming up business last week, Hamilton Parc, which has received millions in town-approved tax breaks, sought and received publicity for single-room apartments with a starting low of $2,475 per month and two-room units at the high end for nearly $4,000 a month

Acting county Supreme Court Justice David Weinstein in December determined Crossgates’ own appraisal for 2019 and 2020 was the “most consistent” analysis of the property’s value, and ruled in the Crossgates’ favor, ordering that the Guilderland’s “assessment rolls are to be corrected accordingly, and any overpayments of taxes are to be refunded with interest.”