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Friday, September 13, 2019
Of Interest
From time to time, with some regularity, Hudson is the subject of an article in Chronogram. Now is one of those times. The September issue features a piece about Hudson by Brian PJ Cronin: "The Endless Waves of Reinvention in Hudson."
The article begins by retelling a story from my early days in Hudson, which I once shared here on Gossips, and ends with this thought: "If the younger generation remaking Hudson can join together with the ones who helped save the city before, they may snatch victory from the gargantuan, watery jaws of defeat once more." What's in the middle makes for an interesting read.
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For once, a very good and fairly accurate picture of Hudson in the last 30 years. Thank you Chronogram. One comment from an old antiques dealer, I would say less than 50% of our business is online.
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ReplyDeleteThe Chronogram's erroneous use of the phrase "haul road" is the result of our own relentless indiscipline.
Which makes me wonder, how will anyone as sloppy as we are "snatch victory from the gargantuan, watery jaws of defeat"?
For years we've known that "haul road" confers all sorts of vested interests for the owner because, technically speaking, a mining "haul road" is an extension of its mine.
This means that whoever owns Becraft and the waterfront dock in future will draw upon the state's generous mining laws as if they apply to the South Bay too.
Meanwhile, just about everyone who aspires to restrain the potential intensification of truck traffic at the waterfront is equally insistent, along with the mining company, that the causeway road is a "haul road." Seriously, that's how stupid we are.
In contrast, the Zoning Code refers to a "private causeway or private road," though as far as I know only three people in the entire city use the city's own codified terms for the road rather than the phrase the mine-owners themselves knowingly inserted into the conversation.
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ReplyDeleteAs for the actual Zoning Code, "a private causeway or private road" can imply two different things of different sizes. And that's pretty much how the Planning Board and ZBA have traditionally understood the two terms.
In context, though, it's actually nonsensical for the two phrases to imply two different things, as if the Code is listing a causeway and a road.
Alternately, doesn't the preposition *or* in the clause imply synonyms, as in "a private causeway or private road"?
In that case, the "road" and "causeway" are the same, which also means they're the same size.
In the context of the rest of the Core Riverfront District, it should be obvious that the two phrases are synonymous, and not items in a list.
Nevertheless, for an astounding number of people it is not obvious enough.
Particularly as the public warned them ahead of time, the authors of the zoning amendments and the Aldermen who ratified them in 2011 are flat-out guilty of the disastrous confusions found in the text and map of the C-R District.