This is the oldest part of the city, and when it was built, there were no cars. It was never designed for the amount of people living there. Houses that were single family are now 8 or 12 apartments. This is the problem.

Cohoes did try to address this issue, but requiring the bedrooms to be a min of 50 sq ft, which is still very small, but bedrooms in a lot of these apartments are less than 40 sq ft.

The problem is that it only applied to new apartments, or when ownership changed.

For apartments that are renting and ongoing, they are grandfathered in.

The city also tried to help the parking situation by making the streets one way, to allow parking on both sides of the street.

What they really need to do is start condemning these old houses.

If they went through with the fire dept and building dept, and really looked, they could find violations and start knocking them down, one by one, and that would free up parking spaces, and they could even make parking lots of of the lots where they tear down the buildings.

They made a lot of parking for the Loft apartments at mill 2 and 4.

If they were motivated, they could do the same for the hill section of the city.