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



 

SEND THIS RIG TO ALBANY
POTHOLE CAPITAL OF NEW YORK 

 https://www.facebook.com/Smartly2/videos/1971732532851673/UzpfSTEwMDAxNDAzMTQ1MTAxNTozOTg3MzY1OTcyNzA3MTk/?id=100014031451015

                                    Joseph P Sullivan

APRIL FOOLS?

 https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/State-budget-official-comment-stuns-Albany-12823228.php

and 

 http://wamc.org/post/new-state-budget-agreement-nets-albany-12m

Who are Albany officials supporting
for Governor this year?

Incumbent Andrew Cuomo or 
Cynthia Nixon?

 http://wamc.org/post/nixon-says-clinton-s-loss-inspired-her-gubernatorial-run

Or, former Syracuse Mayor Stephanie
Miner?

Would it not be wise for Mayor Sheehan
The Albany Common Council
and those who purport to represent Albany
Taxpayers in the NYS State Senate and Assembly  
should unite behind Governor Cuomo's  reelection
bid without delay?

What do Albany homeowner-taxpayer voters
say?

Maybe Siena will conduct a poll?

If the City of Albany receives an 15 million
dollar annual PILOT (payment in lieu of
taxes) to compensate Albany taxpayers for
the Empire State Plaza. 

Isn't is reasonable that the State of New York
should compensate Albany City taxpayers
with a similar annual PILOT for the 
Harriman State Office Campus?

                             Joseph P Sullivan

NEIGHBORHOOD
REVITALIZATION
OR DETERIORATION?
The Sheehan Administration
at work? 

https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/Albany-NY/fore_lt/pmf,pf_pt/37074_rid/globalrelevanceex_sort/42.762389,-73.700924,42.573815,-73.920651_rect/11_zm/2_p/

City of Albany neighborhoods are
in decline.  Mayor Sheehan's
2017 Rezone Albany  ,rubbers stamped
by the 15 Member Albany Common
Council in 2017,  permitting
fast track mixed use development in
former RIB zoned single family 
residential neighborhoods, where only
family homes and Houses of  Worship
were permitted. Such as ours, which
pay the lions share of property taxes
that support City School/City government
services, puts the City of Albany on the
fast track to becoming Detroit on the
Hudson. 

Giving lavish tax breaks to  developers
for building more apartment housing
with high rents, and low amenities
in Uptown Albany such as the project
across from St Peter's Hospital 
 (Academy Post Office) will revert
to section 8 occupancy, creating a slum
like the one  erased by the Albany Med
urban renewal effort. This is planning?
What , by and for whom?

People in the nearby high property tax
blocks like South Manning Blvd, Marion
Avenue and around Buckingham Pond 
are beginning to sell out at reduced 
prices.   Will City and school property
taxes go down as well?  Will more local
resident homeowners protest their
assessments this year (May)?

Foreclosures are on the rise.


Elderly homeowners on fixed incomes
cannot afford the escalating property
taxes.

Old housing stock requires expensive
maintenance. 

Section 8 housing programs spreads 
blight to the last remaining tax paying
single family residential neighborhoods. 

Welcoming more poor, unskilled non-
English speaking refugees, who do not
intend to assimilate, and who go on the
welfare rolls, in a City will an already
large native poverty rate is insane.

Will "No Go Neighborhoods" welcome
Community policing?

Diversity without allegiance and
cultural assimilation will only doom
Albany to  higher poverty rates, more
crime,  lower school performance
and increased government dependency.

A sad fate for the once proud Capitol
City of the former Empire State.

Albany City School District take note.
Reign in spending, creation of more
middle schools. Otherwise, do not be 
surprised if the school budget goes down
to defeat in May.

                                  Joe Sullivan

SECURITY / NATIONAL 
SURVIVAL ARE AT STAKE

 http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/03/12/cutting-welfare-illegal-immigrants-would-pay-trump%E2%80%99s-border-wall-study

and

 http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/03/09/tucker-carlson-anti-border-party-dems-positions-illegal-immigration-are-crazy

Watch:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgOHOHKBEqE&feature=share

                               Joe Sullivan 

COEYMAN'S LAND DEAL DUMPED
GOOD ENDING TO  A BAD DEAL?

 https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Unable-to-reach-access-agreement-Coeymans-12743667.php#photo-14119754


http://www.focusonalbany.com/radio-interviews/item/799-joe-sullivan-talks-about-coeymans
                                                                   

                                             Joe Sullivan

WELCOME TO BPNANEWS18

This is the blog of the Buckingham Pond Crestwood
Neighborhood Association  established 1984.

Our neighborhood boundaries are:  Western Ave(N)
S. Manning Blvd (E)  NYSSThruway-Whitehall Rd(S)
NYSTW-Rte 85 (W)

Our objective has been and remains maintaining and
improving the residential integrity, environment and
quality of life in this primarily single family residential
neighborhood.

Issues that impact this objective include:

1. Land Use/Zoning
2. Traffic/Pedestrian Safety
3. Waste Management/Recycling/Disposal
4.  Open Space Protection/Pocket Parks
5.  Street/Yard Tree/Shrub Planting and Care
6.  Improved Snow Removal/Reduction/Elimination
     of Road Salt/Use of Safer Alternatives by the City
     homeowners, institutions and businesses
     Buckingham Pond Park Care/Improvement
7.  Retaining/Improving the City Municipal Golf
     Course  (Capital Hills - also known as Albany Muni 
     by old timers.
8.  Emergency/Disaster Preparedness/Public Safety
9.  Monitoring and interacting with  residents of adjacent
     neighborhoods, neighborhood associations, city, county
     state and federal governments informing residents of
     our neighborhood of issues, tends, policies that impact
     us.  We are not an island alone. Government policies
     impact every aspect of our lives. We can and must
     recommend  and support those which are positive 
     and oppose those which conflict with or negatively
     impact our neighborhood objective.


Go to : 

 http//bpcnanews.blogspot.com 


 to gain perspective
regarding the history. objectives, issues and achievements
of this Association over the past 33 years. Suffice it to say
our focus has been on land use ,zoning and issues above.

Long time and new residents have a stake in being active
in the Buckingham Pond Crestwood Association Working
on one or more of the above issues as well as others that
are not enumerated. and representing particular geographic
subdivisions,( blocks) are among the ways you can contribute
to our neighborhood  objective Call me; 518 438 5230 to
become active.  Remember you Buckingham Pond Crestwood
Neighborhood Association works when you do.

                                            ******

Regarding our Neighborhood Watch. All residents are  members.
We adopted this policy years ago,  Watch for an update soon
urging you carry your cell phones and use your land lines
to contact the Albany Police, NYS Homeland Security and
other emergency entities when and as needed. 
As a courtesy contact me and our Neighborhood Watch
Coordinator.  My telephone number: 518 438 5230

Interacting with local, state and federal law enforcement
in matters of public safety and emergency/disaster
preparedness is a priority.

That's all for now.                              Joe Sullivan