There may be three new assisted-living facilities in Guilderland’s future.

As construction continues on a visitors’ center at Thacher Park, neighbors have grown concerned that the lights at the site — lit for the safety of construction workers at night — could become a regular feature on the otherwise unilluminated Helderberg escarpment.

KNOX — When the Helderberg Rod & Gun club received  land on Quay Road in 1958 as a gift from  a family who were members, it seemed the perfect spot.  It was  a rural and largely wooded location, thinly populated.  It still is today, but now the land opposite the club  has some large homes.

A variance request to divide one residential lot into two drew a great deal of opposition from neighbors at a recent planning board meeting.

After Altamont recommended disapproving a solar farm, which would have stood on its outskirts, the solar company withdrew its application and is now focusing on the rural town of Knox, which it sees as more receptive to solar projects.

Developer Gregory Wolanin will need to find a new place to store the World War II vehicles he collects and exhibits, the Guilderland zoning board decided Oct. 5.

The third phase of a public hearing on a proposal for planned unit development districts in Voorheesville left no doubt in the minds of village board members that now is the time for Voorheesville to draft what the mayor called a blueprint for its future, a comprehensive land-use plan.

The discovery that one Guilderland farmer has paid taxes for years on land that he did not actually own, at the edge of his property, has prompted the town and the county to redraw the tax map and look at a refund.

The new owner of the Old Stone Inn — built in 1773 — doesn’t want a nine-acre solar farm in his front yard. But Guilderland okayed these farms for rural areas as well as industrial areas just a few months ago.