It's a big meeting week, and Monday seems to be on overload, with public hearings and meetings scheduled back to back from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.--most hybrid, one in person only.
- At 4:00 p.m. on Monday, September 9, Mayor Kamal Johnson holds a public hearing on two new laws: one meant to protect dogs who are tied outside and the other reducing the speed limit throughout the city to 25 mph. The hearing takes place in person only at City Hall.
- At 5:00 p.m. on Monday, September 9, the Common Council holds a special meeting to consider three resolutions. The first resolution authorizes the mayor to enter into a contract with Assemblage Landscape Architecture for a waterfront resiliency project. The second resolution authorizes the mayor to sign an agreement with Christ Church Episcopal for the Youth Department to use space in the church's Fellowship Hall as an afterschool childcare facility. The third resolution authorizes the mayor to enter into an agreement with Columbia County Recovery Kitchen to supply meals--sixty each day--for children at the Hudson Youth Department. 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.
- At 5:30 p.m. on Monday, September 9, the Common Council holds a public hearing on the amendments to Chapter 325, Articles V and XIV of the city code, meant to protect community character by prohibiting chain stores and formula businesses in Hudson. The hearing is a hybrid, taking place in person at City Hall and on Microsoft Teams. Click here for the link to join the hearing remotely.
- At 6:00 p.m. on Monday September 9, the Common Council holds its informal meeting. It is likely there will be much discussion of Hudson's possible adoption of the Good Cause Eviction Law at this meeting. In addition to that, of interest on the agenda is a lengthy communication from the Planning Board arguing that the City should reinstate offstreet parking requirements for new development in Hudson. Ironically, it was the Planning Board that recommended eliminating offstreet parking requirements back in 2019. That issue, too, may be discussed at the meeting or perhaps just referred to the Council's ad hoc Parking Study Committee. 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 Tuesday, September 10, the Planning Board meets at 6:30 p.m. The agenda for the meeting has not yet been published, but it is certain to include the apartment building proposed for Fairview Avenue, which the Planning Board seems to be threatening with a positive declaration in the SEQR process if the applicant doesn't reduce the number of units from 30 to 15, and the 70-unit Mill Street Lofts, for which the Planning Board seems inclined to make a negative declaration. (A negative declaration is a determination that a project will not have a significant adverse impact on the environment and does not require an Environmental Impact Report.) The meeting is a hybrid, taking place in person at City Hall and on Zoom. Click here to join the meeting remotely.
- On Friday. September 13, the Historic Preservation Commission meets at 10:00 a.m. The meeting will include public hearings on the preservation and restoration of the Robert Taylor House and on the adaptive reuse of 601 Union Street as a boutique hotel. 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 Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, September 13 through 15, Friends of the Hudson Area Library holds a book and bake sale to benefit the library. The sale takes place from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and from 1:00 t0 3:30 p.m. on Sunday in the Community Room at the library, 501 North Fifth Street.
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