tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post7260869707606038807..comments2024-03-28T07:54:47.319-04:00Comments on The Gossips of Rivertown: Affordable Housing and HudsonCarole Osterinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16010623982526286408noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-79470445812206490422017-02-27T14:42:03.614-05:002017-02-27T14:42:03.614-05:00But there's grant money available for BAD PLAN...But there's grant money available for BAD PLANNING...We're being led by the conceptually challenged.1Riparianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17248602693560230557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-72893481690698741202017-02-27T12:06:28.448-05:002017-02-27T12:06:28.448-05:00The City owns the vast majority of the waterfront ...The City owns the vast majority of the waterfront -- a good portion of it, unfortunately, can't be accessed (at the base of the palisades that are the base of the Hudson Terrace Apartments, etc.). The problem isn't the waterfront. It's the infill development that is required to stabilize and shore up the neighborhoods that haven't (yet) benefitted from Hudson's real estate appreciation -- primarily the areas north of Warren. The developers aren't really interested in building "affordable" housing. They want to build AirBnB apartments to capitalize on Hudson as a millennial "experiential" travel destination. Thus the need to provide PILOTS to those few developers actually interested in developing such infill housing. Notably, Galvan has never raised the issue of PILOTS: as a NFP it has no intention of ever paying property taxes in Hudson and, indeed, its business plan is totally reliant on selling tax breaks to third parties who have no interest in paying Hudson property taxes either. In essence, the Galvan plan has always been beggar thy neighbor in this regard.<br />John K. Friedmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16514407793203424954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-56712495321575112142017-02-26T20:59:05.156-05:002017-02-26T20:59:05.156-05:00what you are missing is that Hudson does not own m...what you are missing is that Hudson does not own much of the waterfront. <br /><br />as for the PILOTS, i think that if the land were sold on the auction block with no strings attached, then Hudson would have alot more tax money to support the City. <br /><br />j kayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08669649380477390089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-71301465638777499302017-02-26T18:13:26.805-05:002017-02-26T18:13:26.805-05:00There's a problem with the location, "rou...There's a problem with the location, "rough" as its depiction is on the map, and it's the same problem the HDC overlooked when it flipped the Bentley Meeker property (after saying that it wouldn't).<br /><br />The lot at the corner of Dock Street and North Front Street is identified as the only viable site for green or gray infrastructure, or what the engineers called "storage" in the City's "Combined Sewer Overflow Long-Term Control Plan" (LTCP; 2003-2009). <br /><br />An LTCP is like an LWRP, which is to say a comprehensive planning document, only it's for combined sewer systems, and a requirement of Federal policy.<br /><br />As stated in the beginning of our LTCP, the plan "builds upon a Combined Sewer Overflow report developed by Cahn Engineers and published in 1981," a report which was emphatic about the significance of the same corner lot for stormwater planning.<br /><br />So, despite the brow-beating the HDC has received for years, both for the decision to sell the lot in the first place, and for the HDC's uninterrupted ignorance concerning the infrastructure needs of the City, it comes as no surprise that the HDC is once again completely oblivious to the contents of the State-approved LTCP.<br /><br />This is known as BAD PLANNING.<br /><br />To my neighbors: let's get rid of the Hudson Development Corporation at the earliest opportunity.<br /><br />(And when will someone provide an update about the HDC and Senator Schumer's $25 million deal? Word has it, that's now a failure too.)<br /><br />For a City-wide, comprehensive housing study, I understand this is will be a component of the Conservation Advisory Council's "Resource Inventory," which is currently in progress. Was anyone present from Hudson's CAC to shed light on this? (If not, that's not the CAC's fault.)<br /><br />Naturally our City is so huge and sprawling that the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing ... <br /><br />Another name for this phenomenon: BAD PLANNING.unheimlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00204285837938988668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-50359987251913321332017-02-26T18:04:42.084-05:002017-02-26T18:04:42.084-05:00If there is "no shortage of developers intere...If there is "no shortage of developers interested in Hudson" why do we give so much in PILOTS, etc to entice them? I'm especially thinking of our waterfront which has to be one of the few remaining undeveloped sites on the Hudson.Developers should be in a bidding war for our water front, let alone the undeveloped building sites the City owns. What am I missing here?Pewtetrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12787743388006034108noreply@blogger.com