WHY A MORATORIUM
ON REZONE ALBANY?

In June 2017 Albany Mayor Sheehan
rammed through a compliant Common
Council a new city zoning code known
as Rezone Albany.

The City of Albany is identified by the\
 NYS Comptroller's Office as being in
serious fiscal distress.

The Mayor presented and the Common
Council voted to approve city budgets
that were not balanced (2017 and 2018)
depending upon 12.5 million dollars of
state aid each time.

Rezone Albany permits "mixed use"
developments in the former R 1B zoned
single family residential neighborhoods
which make up the tax paying base that
pay's the lion's share of property taxes
which support City schools and City
government services.

Mixed use development directly diminishes
the residential integrity, quality of life, home
values and  city tax base putting Albany on
a fast track to fiscal insolvency.

The Mayor and common Council have
declared Albany to be a sanctuary city
which will result in Albany losing millions
of dollars of annual federal aid in the
coming years.

Add to this an influx of non-English
speaking , unskilled  refugees who
do not share our culture and  who are
not likely to assimilate into our way
of life.

Albany has an already high poverty rate
and dependent population. Adding more
poor people who can not pay their share
of taxes to support themselves and the
services they require, such as schools
health care, an so on, only adds to
Albany's fiscal insolvency.

Add two major problems that impact
city solvency and quality of life:  (1)
a land fill closure  posing a problem
of where and how to dispose of wastes
at a higher cost to residents, and
(2) an aging city sewer system which
requires massive expenditures to
deal with existing structural and
pollution problems.

That Albany is on the fast track to
becoming Detroit on the Hudson is
the inevitable conclusion.


Listen to Focus on Albany interview:

Beaver Creek treatment plant proposal
for Lincoln Park:

 http://www.blogtalkradio.com/cynpooler/2018/04/19/joe-sulivan-talks-about-the-sewage-treatment-plant-proposed-in-lincoln-park

Uptown Albany residents pay attention.
Repayment of 45 mill plus loans /interest
will ultimately fall on your property tax
bill bills in the future.   While your at it pay
attention to the Coeyman's land deal that
was to be a safety valve for closing of the
Rapp Road Albany Landfill.  AND watch
out for the coming city trash tax extension .

You really didn't think those large blue
wheeled recycling bins were for free-did you? 

For your listening pleasure  Detroit on the
Hudson's theme song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwGTlpBHs7Y


                                       Joseph P Sullivan