Malta is getting ready for growth -- maybe really big growth As home to just over 14,000 residents, the Saratoga County town is the designated site of a major new computer "chip fab" plant that could employ nearly 1,500 workers when it's built. And even if it isn't built, regional planners project a 25 percent increase in population in the small community over the next 30 years, a gain of about 3,400 people. But Malta leaders are determined not to let size change its character.
Highlighted in a recent front page story as the latest article of the ongoing "Capital Region at the Crossroads" series in the Albany Times Union, Malta's efforts to plan effectively for what lies ahead is a classic and refreshing example of putting Smart Growth principles to work before a development explosion arrives.
The story reports that for the past five years local planners have been fighting sprawl by pushing plans for fairly dense, walkable development of small homes, apartments, condos and stores, clustered around the town's main intersection at Routes 9 and 67, just to the east of I-87, the Adirondack Northway
Read the full story at http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=728958
