The week begins with Earth Day. The theme for Earth Day this year is "Planet vs. Plastics," which seems appropriate on a day when half the city's trash gets bundled up and carted off in blue plastic bags. After that auspicious beginning, here's what is happening this week.
- On Monday, April 22, the Stuyvesant Town Planning Board continues its review of the agritourism project proposed for Sharptown Ridge. It is expected the Planning Board will resume its consideration of Part II of the Short Environmental Assessment Form. The meeting takes place in person only at 7:00 p.m. at Stuyvesant Town Hall, 5 Sunset Drive, in Stuyvesant.
- On Tuesday, April 23, the Common Council ad hoc Parking Study Committee meets at 6:00 p.m. No agenda has been provided for the meeting, but it is expected the committee will hear presentations from one or more companies that can provide the needed equipment for upgrading the city's parking meter system. The meeting is a hybrid, taking place in person at City Hall and on Microsoft Teams. Click here for the link to join the meeting remotely.
- On Wednesday, April 24, the Common Council holds a special meeting to vote on whether or not to support the Hudson Housing Authority's application for a Restore New York grant for its redevelopment project. The maximum they can get in Restore NY funds in $2 million. The project being proposed is estimated to cost $220 million. Also on the agenda for the special meeting is a resolution authorizing the mayor to enter into a contract for "falling weight deflectometer testing services," to determine if our streets can bear the weight of the trucks that pass through our city daily. The meeting is a hybrid, taking place in person at City Hall and on Microsoft Teams. Click here for the link to join the meeting remotely.
- On Thursday, April 25, Hudson Community Development & Planning Agency meets at 4:30 p.m. The meeting is a hybrid, taking place in person at City Hall and on Microsoft Teams. Click here for the click to join the meeting remotely.
- Also on Thursday, April 25, the Public Works Board, the group tasked with overseeing the implementation of the Sidewalk Improvement District legislation, meets at 6:00 p.m. The meeting is a hybrid, taking place in person at City Hall and on Microsoft Teams. Click here for the link to join the meeting remotely.
- Also at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 25, the History Room at the Hudson Area Library, in collaboration with the Jacob Leisler Institute for the Study of Early New York History, presents "A French Fabulist in Leisler's New York," a talk by Owen Stanwood about the Canadian explorer and raconteur Mathieu Sagean, whose fabulous tales of the New World intrigued the elites of Europe. The event takes place in person in the Community Room at the Hudson Area Library, 51 North Fifth Street. For more information, click here.
- On Friday, April 26, the Historic Preservation Commission holds its second meeting of the month at 10:00 a.m. The meeting includes a public hearing on a proposal to construct an asymmetrical, curved stoop at 442½ Warren Street. The building is one of three identical buildings, and the proposed stoop would be a departure from the straight stoops on the buildings at either side. The meeting is a hybrid, taking place in person at City Hall and on Microsoft Teams. Click here for the link to join the meeting remotely.
The proposed Hudson Housing Authority project is so out of touch with the needs of the Hudson community and its residents. Are existing Hudson homeowners, business owners and renters aware of the potential impact on their taxes on this proposed project? To essentially tear down a high rise and replace it with another high rise makes no sense. And to essentially triple the number of units above 300 is absurd. Where are these new residents going to find jobs? They will once again be isolated from the overall community in this current plan. What is the point of moving new residents into Hudson without providing them with meaningful job opportunities and some access to private garden space? And to combine the proposed population of the HHA buildings and Galvan's proposed housing increases Hudson's population by a huge percentage. Cities benefit from natural population growth - not these huge building blocks. How about providing beautiful new housing with private garden space to the existing tenants of Bliss Towers and adding a few other units which makes more sense? And who owns the HHA land and who is really going to profit from this huge proposed project? It will be outside investors, not Hudson residents.
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