planning

On the brink of approval, a developer for senior housing is backing out, concerned over the cost of pollution cleanup.

A developer wants to build a three-story apartment building for residents aged 55 and older at Mill Hill Court and Route 155, as the final phase of a Planned Unit Development. If approved, this 92-unit apartment building would be built instead of a planned 160-bed nursing home.

GUILDERLAND — Town planner Jan Weston, who had been on the job since 1988, retired at year’s end 2016, and the town has no immediate plan to replace her.

After over a year of meetings and multiple redesigns, a development off of Route 85A was given conditional approval by the New Scotland Planning Board to move forward. Also at the meeting, the board asked, “What constitutes a flashing sign?”

A second vote was taken at Knox’s town board meeting Tuesday night on establishing a second business district in the town. As at the July meeting, the vote failed with a tie of 2 to 2.

Smith's Tavern

Voorheesville adopted a moratorium on development at the end of June so that its first-ever comprehensive land-use plan can be completed. 

At a packed public hearing Tuesday night on a proposed business district at the intersection of routes 156 and 157, the Knox Town Board vote was tied 2 to 2, with one absent member, as the audience grew heated with the deliberation.

A hotel at the entrance to Crossgates Mall nears final approval, as $3 million in McKownville firehouse renovations receive final approval, but the fire district commissioner says that bids all came in higher than expected and that the expansion plan is up in the air as a result.

New Scotland is updating its comprehensive plan, which was last done in 1994, and considering clustered, mixed-use development.

Endangered bats, wetlands, and stormwater basins were among the topics the Voorheesville Planning Commission heard about in considering James Cillis’s proposal for an 11-lot subdivision called Serenity.

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