In recent years, it seems the only new housing being proposed for Hudson is income-based low- and moderate-income housing that requires some kind of property tax abatement to make it viable. A new small apartment development being proposed for Fairview Avenue between Parkwood and Oakwood boulevards appears to be an exception. At the Planning Board meeting on Tuesday, attorney Kristal Heinz, representing the owner, shared preliminary plans for two buildings to be situated on the lots shown in the photograph below, one of which is currently the location of an early 20th-century Colonial Revival house.
The pre-submission presentation included preliminary renderings of a pair of buildings joined by a kind of porte cochère which gives access to an offstreet parking area for tenants.
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| Facade facing Fairview Avenue |
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| Oakwood Blvd. facade |
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| Rear of buildings |
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| Parkwood Blvd facade |
The two buildings are expected to have a total of twenty one- and two-bedroom apartments, which will rent at market rates, and two commercial spaces. The project is now in the process of doing a traffic study. A new regulation requires that the project is subject to a study by the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation to determine that the additional waste water flows from the building will not cause CSOs (combined sewer overflows) in Hudson to happen more frequently than they do now. It is expected that a full application for site plan approval will be presented to the Planning Board at its July meeting.
Theresa Joyner, who chairs the Planning Board, asked about the historic marker found at the corner of Fairview Avenue and Oakwood Boulevard, which marks the site of Camp Kelly, where in 1862 the volunteers of the 128th Regiment, from Columbia and Dutchess counties, assembled before sailing to New York on the steamboat Oregon on their way to Camp Millington in Baltimore.
There was no answer to the question about the marker, but there seems no good reason to move it.
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Sacred ground for those of us that grew up here. "O'bie's " Hamburgers !
ReplyDeleteFor rent: the loudest apartment you will ever live in! Don't bother ever opening your windows.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a great plan. Nice seeing that property developed. Mixed use is nice, too.
ReplyDeleteTransparency please. Like what exactly is the sq. footage, expected market rate and noise and traffic remediation? It's always suspicious when the facts you are expecting to be clearly highlighted are totally absent. How about pets? I could go on. Will 2 people be able to live here with some elbow room to spare?
ReplyDeleteIt's a bit early in the process to expect any of this information, Cheviot Views.
DeletePerhaps so but the extensive architectural renderings looks like the developers really thought this out. I would think that the interior spaces are accounted for too. I maybe wrong. There's a rapidly aging population of boomers. Many may like to downsize. Still hoping that this population's needs would be addressed at some point in Hudson.
DeleteIf there’s a market, someone will seek to serve it. Beyond that, and the zoning/building codes, it’s a private investment, not seeking public money. Let them develop their property within the law as they wish. It will be fine. Or it will fold. Either way, it’s their bet, not the public’s.
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