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Community Development director outlines staffing, code updates and housing work
Summary
Community Development Director Matthew Rectors told the Albany City Council that his 19-person department is focused on streamlining permitting, updating the Albany Development Code and responding to state mandates on middle housing while managing federal CDBG funds and historic-district work.
Matthew Rectors, the city’s community development director, briefed the Albany City Council on the department’s structure, recent accomplishments and near-term priorities at a Jan. 2025 work session.
The department operates with about 19 full‑time equivalent positions and separate biennial budgets for planning ($4.4 million), economic development ($6.8 million) and building/permitting ($6.1 million), Rectors said. “Our mission … is to provide solution‑oriented thinking, partnerships, and robust engagement to promote and facilitate the growth, development, and empowerment of the city and its diverse neighborhoods,” he read to the council.
Rectors told councilors the planning team handles current and long‑range planning, floodplain review and historic‑district preservation; the building division…
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