ALBANY, N.Y. ( NEWS10 ) — In a unanimous vote the Albany Planning Board approved a new location for the Camino Nuevo methadone clinic located on Central Avenue. At Tuesday’s meeting concerned residents and business owners voiced their concerns one last time.
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“They say this is a more safe place, that way we don’t mind no people, here,” said José, a patient at the Central Avenue methadone clinic who says these places are very important.
As the methadone clinic is poised to move, some say the decision for tonight’s meeting was rushed. “She commands that this independent body perform a vote this evening as opposed to trying to methodically work through a process that was frankly abandoned responsibility by her office months ago. Your attempts to try to mediate these different viewpoints brought forward is apparently deemed arbitrary and capricious,” said Terry Kremer, Director of Human Resources, Teal, Becker & Chiaramonte, CPAs.