The owners of a historic residence in Albany’s Monteith District have renewed their request for a city permit to turn the house into an outpatient center to treat substance abuse.
The property is known as the Sternberg House, built in 1868 and remodeled in about 1920. It is on the southwest corner of Ferry Street and Fifth Avenue, diagonally across from the Linn County Courthouse.
Last year, first the planning commission and then, on appeal, the city council turned down the owners’ application for a conditional use permit to allow their treatment center…