Enviro Impact Publc Meeting Tonight

[danefan]

I have a feeling the meeting will be dominated by locals complaining about the dorm placement. They can thank the people in charge of the Harriman Campus for the choice of placement.

 

http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=888644&category=REGION

 

A project on the list is the stadium. If anyone goes please let us know what happens.

 

The meeting is 7pm tonight at the RACC (Hall of Fame Room I believe).

[UAalum72]

The meeting was only to take comments and questions (which still can be submitted until 5 pm Friday). No answers were given.

 

About 35-40 attended. Ten spoke, including eight area residents and two Albany Common Council members. The first guy bought his house on Tudor Rd. in 2002, spoke for 35 minutes ticking off comments on 75-80 specific lines in the DGEIS. Almost all the discussion was about the new dorms to be built in the southeast corner of the campus. The residents were opposed, worried about storm drainage. The Common Council members talked about getting tax money out of the project (Albany Pharm, Syracuse Forestry and others have privately-owned dorms that pay city taxes) and wanted it to go onto the Harriman Campus, but one (O'Brien, 12th ward) said the university hadn't even talked to the City Water Commisssioner yet and the Harriman people thought the whole dorm project was rushed and half-assed.

 

One person talked about how cutting the trees for the dorms would allow more noise from the athletic fields to spill into the Tudor neighborhood. That was the only time the stadium came up.

 

The meeting is supposed to be posted on the Albany Community Access TV channel tomorrow.

[Michigan_Dane]

These people are idiots.

 

If Las Vegas had the Tudor neighborhood HOA, Vegas would still be a one intersection town. We can't have those distracting lights at the casino, right? If they were in Michigan, the football team would be playing in the "Small House". Where were they when this Albany Nano College was first discussed? Who needs a Nano college?? Maybe a nano class would be enough or maybe we could buy an ipod nano. If we like it we can expand?

 

These residents purchased dumpy little houses next to a state university. Did they think the state university was going somewhere? Did they not see the campus when they drove by with their realtor? Should the world come to a grinding stop because some lower middle class malcontent has a beef with the world?

 

They're just lucky they live in a city and state that has no interest in supporting a state university. Its not like a college education ever paid off?

[danefan]

The meeting was only to take comments and questions (which still can be submitted until 5 pm Friday). No answers were given.

 

About 35-40 attended. Ten spoke, including eight area residents and two Albany Common Council members. The first guy bought his house on Tudor Rd. in 2002, spoke for 35 minutes ticking off comments on 75-80 specific lines in the DGEIS. Almost all the discussion was about the new dorms to be built in the southeast corner of the campus. The residents were opposed, worried about storm drainage. The Common Council members talked about getting tax money out of the project (Albany Pharm, Syracuse Forestry and others have privately-owned dorms that pay city taxes) and wanted it to go onto the Harriman Campus, but one (O'Brien, 12th ward) said the university hadn't even talked to the City Water Commisssioner yet and the Harriman people thought the whole dorm project was rushed and half-assed.

 

One person talked about how cutting the trees for the dorms would allow more noise from the athletic fields to spill into the Tudor neighborhood. That was the only time the stadium came up.

 

The meeting is supposed to be posted on the Albany Community Access TV channel tomorrow.

 

Thanks for the update 72. I figured the heart of the meeting would be the dorm issue.