It's been six months since we've heard anything about the "Hudson Connects" project--the project to which the lion's share of DRI funding is dedicated, meant to make streetscape improvements to the area between Second and Front streets, from Dock Street to Basilica Hudson. Last night, at the Common Council meeting, Council president Tom DePietro distributed the flyer reproduced below to Council members and, at the end of the meeting, spoke of the workshop and invited everyone to attend.
Please join us and help shape the future of Hudson's streets! Attendees will be encouraged to participate in a visual preference survey and provide input on the design of street improvements. A screen presentation will also be given to update the community on the project schedule and scope of work.
In talking about the workshop, DePietro recommended that everyone attend if they want to have a say in the "design aspects of the streets and sidewalks." Some months ago, because more than half the designated area is in a historic district, there was talk of the Historic Preservation Commission having some input into the "design aspects of the streets and sidewalks." Gossips does not know if the question of the HPC's involvement in reviewing the design was ever settled. Readers are urged to attend next Tuesday's workshop.
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I see Creighton Manning is listed on the flyer. I don't know what their involvement in this is, but they are not to be trusted. Last year they created a so-called parking study for Galvan's proposed 7th street development that was full of falsehoods, misrepresentations, bad math, oversights and general shoddy work. They conveniently didn't even take alternate side parking into consideration and found hundreds of available overnight parking spaces for their client when few actually existed and few still exist. They are not on our side. B Huston
ReplyDeleteSo let me get this straight. The City Council gets to take six months of not doing anything, but suddenly gets to tell us that we have a couple days to respond to the latest public workshop. Give us a break, please.
ReplyDeleteIt's not the Common Council, it's the DRI Committee, which, according to the documents available on the City of Hudson website, hasn't met since December 2020. https://cms3files.revize.com/hudsonny/DRI/2020-12-02%20DRI%20Mtg%20Summary.pdf
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