The local board must stand its ground in assessing what is best for the community it serves.

The towns of New Scotland and Bethlehem are partnering for an event — on Feb. 7 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Five Rivers Environmental Education Center in Delmar — where interested landowners can learn of different ways to conserve their properties for future generations.

ALBANY COUNTY — Building permits for multifamily housing outpaced those for single-family homes in the Capital Region in 2016 for the first time in recent memory, said Mark Castiglione, executive director of the Capital District Regional Planning Commission.

The same trend continued in 2017, he said, but to a lesser extent.

While there is no reason in the zoning code for the Altamont Planning Board to reject a proposal for 120-foot monopole telecommunications tower to be placed above the village, the board has decided to allow the public more time to offer its input on the proposed project.

Pyramid’s proposed housing complex would create 150 construction jobs and six permanent jobs — three skilled, and three unskilled, according to the application.

The Knox Zoning Board of Appeals will weigh in on the interpretation of a town law on home businesses after the planning board members could not come to an agreement on whether home businesses are subject to similar zoning restrictions as their business counterparts.

GUILDERLAND — New town planner Kenneth Kovalchik will make a presentation to the town board, at its Dec. 18 meeting, about all of the existing and proposed apartment and senior-housing complexes in Guilderland.

Enterprise Consulting Services is once again looking to install a cell tower in Altamont. In 2013, the company had the same proposal for the same for the same site, on Agawam Lane.

A 92-unit apartment complex intended for senior citizens, at Route 20 and Mill Hill Court, broke ground on Nov. 1. The Guilderland Industrial Development Agency has granted the $21 million project $650,000 in sales and mortgage-recording tax breaks.

GUILDERLAND — A new citizens’ group is concerned about the number of apartment complexes currently proposed in Guilderland, which would add more than 1,200 units.