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Home Sweet Home!

Home Sweet Home! Oneonta Heights Now Accepting Applications By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Christina Drayton and her family got their first tour of their new apartment today as Housing Visions hosted an open house of its latest housing project, Oneonta Heights at 4 Monroe Ave. “I am in love with it,” said Drayton. “The kids have already picked out their rooms. I’ve let them each pick some wall stickers for their bedrooms but the rest of…

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Construction Starts On 60 Housing Units

Construction Starts On 60 Housing Units ONEONTA –  Construction is about to start on $15.9 million Oneonta Heights, which includes 40 senior-citizen housing units and 20 for working families, developer Housing Visions of Syracuse announced a few minutes ago. The project will support a neighborhood transformation plan developed by Housing Visions in partnership with the City of Oneonta and Opportunities for Otsego, which will create 60-affordable housing units for families and seniors.…

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Citizens Make Last Plea to Planning Board, But Housing Visions Gets Silver Creek ‘Yes’

Silver Creek Housing OK’d After Last Plea By Citizens By LIBBY CUDMORE • for AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Despite a final few voices of public outcry, Housing Visions’ proposed 48 unit Silver Creek senior and family housing project got site plan approval from the Oneonta City Planning Board at a special meeting called this evening at City Hall. “This is a good thing for Oneonta,” said Mayor Gary Herzig, who served on the Housing Task Force that brought Housing Visions to the…

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48 Units Too Intense For Silver Creek

48 Units Too Intense For Silver Creek Edition of Thursday-Friday, Dec. 4-5, 2014 To the Editor: I am very concerned about Housing Visions’ planned development of the Silver Creek properties. I’ve always favored reasonable development of this area, but I have serious misgivings about the construction of 48 housing units there. First, I worry about the stability of the hillside. Can it physically support this much construction? We know what heavy construction of the Wilber Park Apartments did to that…

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Plan For 60 Dwelling Units In City Long In Gestation, Developer Says By LIBBY CUDMORE• allotsego.com ONEONTA – When Ben Lockwood, vice president of Housing Visions, came to Oneonta six years ago, he knew he had the tools to fill a need. “I saw the Oneonta really needed housing,” he said. “The student population puts a stress on low-income residents who need access to their jobs, services and shopping.” That project fell through.  But Wednesday, at the city Planning Commission meeting,…