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All development projects proposed in Albany must comply with the City's Unified Sustainable Development Ordinance (USDO). The USDO, in coordination with the Albany 2030 Comprehensive Plan, includes zoning code updates and a streamlined, user-friendly process that aims to secure successful (re)development in the City.
| Case Files | Address | Applicant | Description |
Case Agendas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00369 | 292 State Street | Stephanie Brown | Conditional Use Permit - Conversion of a one-family townhouse to a two-family townhouse. | |
| P00377 | 39 Columbia Street | Albany Center Gallery | Certificate of Appropriateness to paint a mural on the side, east elevation. | |
| P00378 | 199 Lark Street | Zhechao 'Ron' Xiong | Certificate of Appropriateness to carry out an exterior rehabilitation on a vacant building. | |
| P00376 | 45 Columbia Street | Albany Center Gallery | Certificate of Appropriateness to paint a mural on the parged side, west elevation. | |
| 00375 | 1415 Washington Avenue | Evan Podob, 1415 Washington Property, LLC | Area Variance, Demolition Review, Major Certificate of Appropriateness, Major Development Plan Review - Demolition of a +/-66,237 square foot hotel and the construction of a +/-414,580 square foot student dormitory with 240 dwelling units and a parking garage with +/-207 automobile parking spaces. | |
| 00374 | 53 Pinewood Avenue | Michael Smith | Area Variance to permit the construction of a five-foot tall fence with more than 60 percent opacity in a front yard, where only up to a four-foot tall fence with a maximum 60 percent opacity is permitted. | |
| P00365 | 105 South Lake Avenue | Joseph Matzner | Certificate of Appropriateness to remove the existing masonry entry porch and construct a new wood entry porch with an enlarged footprint. | |
| P00373 | 33 Garden Alley | Keith Lavit & Michael Zitolo | Certificate of Appropriateness to replace three non-original sash windows and alter the size of two openings on the front elevation and install a new sash window on the side elevation. | |
| P00370 | 9 Thurlow Terrace | Faraz A. Khan & Mehak Jamil | Certificate of Appropriateness to construct a rear 2-story addition. | |
| P00363 | 725 Madison Avenue | Woman's Club of Albany | Certificate of Appropriateness to restore the existing front porch and construct an ADA compliant ramp. | |
| P00364 | 179 Elk Street | Nii N & Naa O Nortley | Certificate of Appropriateness to replace seven non-original divided lite vinyl sash windows with 1-over-1 vinyl sash windows. | |
| 00361 | 62 Dana Avenue | RJS RE Holdings, LLC | Conversion of a two-family townhouse to a three-family townhouse. | |
| 00356 | 161 Washington Avenue Extension #208 | AJ Signs | Area Variance - Installation of a 100 square foot wall sign, when the maximum permitted amount of wall signage is 32 square feet. | |
| 00358 | 536 Central Avenue | Stewart's Shops | Area Variance (§375-4(G)(4)(e)(i)) to allow +/- 46% transparency on Manning Boulevard and 0% transparency on Central Avenue where 50% is required. | |
| 00266 | 1020 Madison Ave | The College of Saint Rose | Area Variance (375-4(I)(5)(a)(i)) to allow the installation of an additional 7 square foot wall sign, where one already exists, when the maximum permitted amount of wall signage in a MU-NE zoning district for a property with one frontage is one wall sign. Conditional Use Permit / Demolition Review to occupy an existing approx. 4,370-sqft structure and proposed approx. 980-sqft addition as a higher education institution. Three existing accessory structures at the site totaling approx. 1,500-sqft are proposed to be demolished. |