Meetings of Interest in the Week Ahead

We have reached the midway point in September and are less than a week away from the autumnal equinox. In these glorious last days of summer, here is what's happening.

• On Monday, September 16, the Zoning Board of Appeals may or may not meet at 6:00 p.m. There are two meetings of the ZBA listed on the city calendar--one for Monday and another for Wednesday, Wednesday being the ZBA's regularly scheduled meeting. Now that the Planning Board has made a negative declaration on the project proposed for Mill Street, the pressure is on for the ZBA to grant the needed variances, so that Kearney Realty & Development can apply for state funding for this project, which they are now bundling together with the building proposed for Fourth and State and calling it "scattered site" housing. If the meeting does take place today, it will be in person only at City Hall.

Update: Lisa Kenneally, who chairs the ZBA, has confirmed that tonight's special meeting is on. It takes place in person only at 6:00 p.m. at City Hall.

Another Update: At 3:22 p.m., Gossips was informed by ZBA chair Lisa Kenneally that tonight's special ZBA meeting HAS BEEN CANCELED.

• Also on Monday, September 16, the Hudson Housing Authority Board of Commissioners meets at 6:00 p.m. As always, the meeting may yield more information about HHA's redevelopment plans. There is now a Redevelopment Committee, made up of board members Claire Cousin, Rebecca Wolff, and Nick Zachos, working with the developer, Mountco, and HHA executive director Jeffrey Dodson in meetings that take place out of the public eye. At the last meeting of the HHA board, it was announced they were beginning the process of value engineering to bring down the cost of the project, which is now estimated at $220 million. The meeting is a hybrid, taking place in person in the Community Room at Bliss Towers, 41 North Second Street, and on Zoom. Click here to join the meeting remotely. 

• On Tuesday, September 17, the Hudson Housing Authority was to hold a  "Redevelopment Open House with Work Session on Green Space," from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. in the Community Room at Bliss Towers. That event, however, has not been confirmed, and it is likely it will not happen. Information about it may be forthcoming at Monday's regular meeting of the HHA Board of Commissioners.
• At 5:15 p.m. on Tuesday, September 17, the Common Council Finance Committee holds its monthly meeting. 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 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 17, the Common Council holds its regular monthly meeting. It is expected the Council will vote on adopting the Good Cause Eviction Law at this meeting. Although the Council has yet to discuss and agree on--at least not in public--the definitions of the small landlord and a luxury apartment (both of which are exempt), the law as it is being proposed defines small landlord to mean "a landlord of no more than one unit anywhere in the State of New York" and luxury apartment as one that has "a monthly rate above three hundred forty-five percent of fair market rent as published by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development." 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, September 18, the Zoning Board of Appeals meets at 6:00 p.m., unless of course they hold a special meeting on Monday, September 16.

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