On June 3, the first Community Visioning Workshop was held at The Spark of Hudson. It was a drop-in event that took place over a period of two hours. Today, the City announced the second Community Visioning Workshop, to happen on Saturday, September 21, from 10:00 a.m. until noon. The location is the Hudson High School Cafeteria, 215 Harry Howard Avenue. This time, the workshop is not a drop-in event. People are expected to arrive at 10:00 am. and stay for the whole two hours.
Here is the official announcement of the event:
The City of Hudson is hosting its second Community Visioning Workshop to inform its new Comprehensive Plan.
During the first workshop, the project team shared initial research findings and heard from residents about the values they most want to see reflected in the final plan. This second workshop will seek to align participants around a guiding vision for Hudson's future and types of actions the City should prioritize in the coming years.
The workshop will start with a presentation summarizing the project and its progress to date, including results from the Community Preference Survey. After that, attendees will break up into smaller groups to go deeper into a community visioning exercise and begin identifying potential recommendations for the Comprehensive Plan.
This will be a two-hour workshop beginning promptly at 10:00 a.m. Please arrive on time in order to fully participate in the program. The event will include activities for kids and light refreshments. Advanced registration is not required.
When: Saturday, September 21st--10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon
Where: Hudson Sr. High School Cafeteria (215 Harry Howard Ave)
To learn more about the comprehensive planning process, please visit the project webpage by clicking here. If you have any questions, please email comprehensiveplan@cityofhudson.org.
A comprehensive plan? How about cleaning up the parking lots on Warren and the City Hall lot on Columbia? How about replacing their surfaces entirely? How about having HPD walk through the 7th street park at least twice a day to put an end to all the violations going on there that are making one half of the park comfortable for only the homeless, alcoholics and addicts? How about making the flagpole in Promenade Park stop making so much noise in the slightest breeze when the meatal weight continually clangs against the metal pole? How about fixing all the loose and noisy manhole covers and water valve caps all over the place? How about getting all the tractor trailers off of State Street that should be ticketed for failing to stay on the truck route? How about making National Grid finish up their work on the 300 block of State Street before next April? How about repaving all the roads this year that National Grid's contractors ripped up starting a year ago, including on Warren Street? How about making Galvan fix the several houses they own that have been vacant for years and decades? How is that for a plan? Not comprehensive enough?
ReplyDeleteAmen to everything Bill said. And in addition, how about denying Colarusso a permit to operate a gravel dump and industrial truck route on the waterfront next to our beautiful park?
ReplyDeleteAnother useless Comprehensive Plan. How about as the first step, the city does a "Comprehensive Review" of the last comprehensive plan. You know, look at what was proposed and how each proposal fared over time? Maybe the city can post it or at least a link to it???
ReplyDeleteThe 2002 Comprehensive Plan is on the City website and always has been, although it used to be easier to find. Here's the link: https://cms3.revize.com/revize/hudsonnynew/document_center/Business/126.pdf
DeleteSince I've lost my "peter" exclusive on Gossips (in the trademark world, if you don't use it, you lose it), I'm writing this comment to say not only do I agree with what Bill and peter say, i would add that it's way past time for Hudson to get involved in our public school debacle. please, no sermons about division of political labor, but it's way past time for Hudson (the city) to demand that HCSD educate our children instead of using them to mollify some bizarre social justice teddy bear. The E in DEI should stand for excellence. --peter meyer
ReplyDeleteA city hall as dysfunctional as ours is not capable of implementing a plan of any kind, comprehensive or not! Who is going to see that this comprehensive plan will be carried out in a timely, efficient, professional and respectful manner? Kamal, Rob Perry, Craig Haigh, Tracy Delaney? How about NO, NO, NO and NO. Who does that leave us with? Tom Depietro? Shane Bower and Jason Foster? Santa Claus? Margaret Morris?
ReplyDeleteIf this city hall were to act as much as they talk and make plans, something might actually get done around here to make Hudson a more liveable and respectable city. Do not get involved in this so-called plan, you will only be encouraging city hall to continue talking and doing nothing about anything AND WASTING OUR MONEY ON CONSULTANTS!
The only thing that will get us out of the endless useless comprehensive plans is to get rid of the useless mayor's office and create a City Manager's office. Kamal Johnson and anyone who succeeds him are a major part of the problem and a major waste of waste of money. He/they stand in the way of progress.
Do not forget that the only reason city hall is trying to repair some sidewalks is because the DOJ came to town years ago and told us we had to! This was not an idea or plan that came from City Hall. It was forced on us and we are way past the deadline to comply with DOJ's directive. Kamal Johnson and Rob Perry don't give a rat's ass about how dangerous our sidewalks are! (Just have a walk in front of City Hall!) There is little to no hope that city hall is capable of governing properly - This has been clear for years. Until the powers that be admit they are failing and wasting, nothing will change and we will continue to sink. You watch!