Albany comprehensive planning process
Lots of you know that I'm a big nerd about city planning. So it's pretty great, as far as I'm concerned, to get to watch the city of Albany go through its first ever comprehensive planning process. (I spoke with someone at the American Planning Association about this for some background, and he was quite surprised that the capital city of New York had no comprehensive plan.)
I expect to be following the process regularly, and writing periodic columns about it at key junctures.
The first of these appeared today, talking mostly about what it actually means to have a process that's transparent and relies on public input. (Hint: not flagrantly violating the Open Meetings Law is not sufficient.)
There was a lot to say that I couldn't fit in there, which has me thinking about launching a separate blog to follow and comment on the process in detail. Do I have the time is, of course, the question. Hmmm...
UPDATE: April 6: The original version of this column said the next Planning Committee meeting was April 19. It has been moved to April 24.
UPDATE: May 3: Apparently I do have time for a new blog.