Troy minutes record conditional approval for 193-unit Fourth Street project.

Troy's posted Planning Board minutes record a 5-0 vote on February 17, 2026, to conditionally approve a 193-unit apartment project at 15-25 Fourth Street. The approval lists seven requirements involving access, lot consolidation, architectural and engineering review, snow management, and sewer infrastructure.

This article reviews that February action. It is not an announcement of a new October approval, a construction start, or apartments becoming available.

Environmental review preceded the approval

The January 20 minutes, page 2, identify the applicant as RJ Valente Companies and describe 193 apartments above a first-floor parking garage, with at least one designated garage space per unit. The application is PLPB 2025 0038.

Those minutes classify the proposal as a Type I action under the State Environmental Quality Review Act. They record separate unanimous votes declaring the application complete, issuing a negative declaration, and scheduling the February hearing. They also identify a Planning Board subcommittee to meet with the Historical Review Committee about the project.

The February 17 minutes, page 2, then record the conditional approval. The sequence matters: the environmental-review vote and the site-plan vote were separate actions.

Seven requirements in the approval motion

The February motion requires:

• A Museum Place easement agreement covering emergency services and snow removal, reviewed and approved by Corporation Counsel before execution.
• Lot-line-adjustment plats signed by the Director of Code Enforcement and filed with Rensselaer County to complete the proposed lot consolidation.
• City engineer acceptance of final architectural details after further Historical Review Committee and Planning Board subcommittee review.
• City engineer review and acceptance of a geotechnical report.
• City engineer acceptance of updated snow-maintenance details or snow-storage locations.
• Review and acceptance of a sewer report by the Director of Public Utilities.
• Completion of the City's combined-sewer-permit requirements, including required sanitary-flow offset projects, before a certificate of occupancy.

For a downtown project of this size, the conditions show that approval reaches beyond the building layout. It also depends on legal access arrangements, recorded parcel changes, technical review, and infrastructure requirements.

A recorded vote is not a construction-status report

The minutes establish what the Board voted to approve and the conditions it attached. The reviewed records do not include a separately executed approval, a final approved plan set, or proof that those conditions have been satisfied.

They also do not establish a building-permit issuance, a construction schedule, or an occupancy date. Anyone relying on the project's current status should obtain the operative approval and plans, along with later engineering acceptances and permit records. The February vote alone does not answer those questions.