Virtual Meetings and Events in the Week Ahead
The month of July ends with regular meetings, a special meeting, and two events of considerable interest.
- On Monday, July 27, the Planning Board holds a special meeting at 4:30 p.m. The meeting was called to continue the site plan review of 502 Union Street. On Friday, the Historic Preservation Commission agreed to grant the project a certificate of appropriateness.
It is also expected that the Planning Board will, at this meeting, vote on whether to classify the Colarusso project as a Type I or an Unclassified action.
- There are also two Common Council committee meetings on Monday, July 27: the Fire Committee at 5:30 p.m., and the Police Committee at 6:00 p.m.
- On Tuesday, July 28, the Hudson Development Corporation holds its regular monthly meeting at noon. Click here to access the Zoom meeting. The meeting ID is 817 7116 3754; the passcode is 536761.
- Also on Tuesday, July 28, the HDC Emergency Cultural Task Force meets at 3:00 p.m. Click here for the link to access the meeting.
- On Wednesday, July 29, at 4:00 p.m., there is a walking tour with Arterial and Street Plans, the consultants that will be undertaking the "Hudson Connects" project. The purpose of the participatory event is to "evaluate the safety, accessibility, and beauty of the streets in the DRI study area." The walking tour begins at the entrance to Promenade Hill. Participants are required to wear a mask and stay six feet apart and encouraged to wear comfortable shoes and bring a bottle of water.
- At 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, July 29, there is a workshop at Hudson Hall to initiate the analysis and data collection phase of the "Hudson Connects" project. "Attendees will be encouraged to share feedback on the current state of the streets and vet priority projects, highlighting missing, crucial connections within/to/from the project area, and what currently enables or prevents safe mobility around the neighborhood." Registration is required. Click here to register. Masks are required, and attendance is limited to fifty people.
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Because the law did not turn out to work in the way William Sharp (NYSDOS) said it would, the Planning Board is free to base its ultimate decision on the legislative history of the C-R District alone.
ReplyDeleteIn fact, that is all that remains to them if they want any connection to the C-R Zoning District as it was original conceived.
In response to our 2010 Public Comments, the language of the C-R District sought to cap, or at least restrain, the potential for runaway truck volumes at the waterfront. Then, almost at the last minute, Sharp had us remove that language from a dozen different places and substitute his own formula.
Sharp's clever idea has since collapsed, leaving the Planning Board high and dry with nothing in the Code to support the scrutiny of truck volumes as a criterion of CUP issuance. (The only thing you can't "enlarge" in the C-R District is a "building.")
I’m very relieved to see on the Agenda for today’s meeting that the action will be a Type I action pursuant to SEQRA. That’s progress alone, and reason to celebrate.
Hopefully it can still be a "Supplemental EIS" (to the 2011 GEIS), as the 2011 Common Council recommended for all CUP reviews in the C-R District.
Hopefully that can be decided later. We'll take it one step at a time.
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