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Allow drivers in the center lane on Everett to legally turn right onto Central when the signal turns green. Cars on Everett waiting in the right turn lane stack up very far back and obstruct the other lanes and often have to wait multiple cycles to get onto Central. The signal currently only allows the center lane to turn left and go straight. Why not allow drivers to turn right as well? The right turn seems to be the higher volume choice judging from how far cars are stacking up behind the light during evening rush hour.

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Can the City and its Economic Development team please actively promote the redevelopment of this site and others on upper New Scotland Ave into a high end uses that would serve the homeowners that occupy the surrounding neighborhoods and professionals who work at St. Peter's hospital. How about contacting and recruiting Mazzone or some other high end restaurant or brewery developer. Why is the city actively promoting redevelopment on Broadway industrial areas when its few remaining strong neighborhoods wither away because they can't compete with places like Saratoga due to a lack of good amenities? The commercial strip currently caters solely to the hospital work force rather than the larger surrounding neighborhood of tax paying homeowners. The upper New Scotland neighborhood needs more appropriate commercial amenities (coffee shop, book store, fine restaurant, brew pub, bakery) to attract, maintain and support the surrounding neighborhood and those high income homeowners. Without actively pursuing or promoting these kind of amenities in its wealthiest neighborhoods, the city cannot expect people to purchase $300,000 homes or continue to stay in these neighborhoods and pay the kind of taxes they are being asked to pay. The opportunity to attract middle and upper class families back to these wonderful houses and neighborhoods is being squandered by ignoring neighborhood amenity focused economic development.

Can the City and its Economic Development team please actively promote the redevelopment of this site and others on upper New Scotland Ave into a high end uses that would serve the homeowners that occupy the surrounding neighborhoods and professionals who work at St. Peter's hospital. How about contacting and recruiting Mazzone or some other high end restaurant or brewery developer. Why is the city actively promoting redevelopment on Broadway industrial areas when its few remaining strong neighborhoods wither away because they can't compete with places like Saratoga due to a lack of good amenities? The commercial strip currently caters solely to the hospital work force rather than the larger surrounding neighborhood of tax paying homeowners. The upper New Scotland neighborhood needs more appropriate commercial amenities (coffee shop, book store, fine restaurant, brew pub, bakery) to attract, maintain and support the surrounding neighborhood and those high income homeowners. Without actively pursuing or promoting these kind of amenities in its wealthiest neighborhoods, the city cannot expect people to purchase $300,000 homes or continue to stay in these neighborhoods and pay the kind of taxes they are being asked to pay. The opportunity to attract middle and upper class families back to these wonderful houses and neighborhoods is being squandered by ignoring neighborhood amenity focused economic development.

How about building a public pool or splash pad in Pinehills and the New Scotland, Hackett Blvd, Whitehall neighborhoods. The city is trying to attract families back and these are some of the healthiest neighborhoods in the city were young families might consider living but the water amenities are pretty limited especially compared to other neighborhoods in the city and surrounding suburbs. The Center Square, Mansion and Southend neighborhoods have easy access to the Lincoln Park Pool and brand new splash pad, North Albany's got a new splash pad and Northwest Albany have Westlandhills and Rosemont Park Splash pads. But why doesn't Pinehills, upper new scotland, and whitehall get anything? These neighborhoods are attractive to new, young families and the City should provide at least the same amenities its providing other areas.

Abandoned building, trash, overgrown yard, homeless camp

Extend the Hackett Blvd. Multi-use Bike path through the vacant land behind and between McDonalds and Hackett Middle School to Lark St so that people (and kids) from the Upper Whitehall and New Scotland Avenue neighborhoods can ride bikes to School and Lark Street and Washington Park easily. This would improve inter-connectedness of the city and the South Park neighborhoods, encourage people from the outer neighborhoods to bike and walk down to Lark Street, support the businesses there and allow kids from the neighborhoods to bike and walk to Hackett Middle School safely. It would also improve the abandoned, blighted area behind Hackett Middle School that is currently over grown, contains abandoned houses and homeless camps.

Trees and shrubs growing across sidewalk through fence from Hackett Middle School yard forcing all pedestrians onto median and ruining grass.

Barking dog