In the process of revising Hudson's comprehensive plan, the third and final Community Visioning Workshop has been scheduled for Monday, December 16, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Spark of Hudson, 502 Union Street. As was the case with the first of these workshops, this is to be a drop-in session. Residents are invited to come at any time during that two-hour period to share their thoughts on draft recommendations for Hudson's new Comprehensive Plan.
Unfortunately, the workshop will be taking place at the same time as the monthly meeting of the Hudson Housing Authority Board of Commissioners, which begins at 6:00 p.m. on Monday, December 16. People interested in monitoring the progress of the proposed redevelopment of public housing in Hudson will have to drop in to the workshop in the first half hour or the last half hour.
The invitation to the third and final Community Visioning Workshop makes this statement:
The City of Hudson is actively developing an updated Comprehensive Plan to guide its future land use and legislative priorities. The Plan will focus on all aspects of the City's future, including housing, transportation, parks, economic development, and urban design, among other areas. At the first two workshops, residents shared their values and needs and discussed a guiding vision for Hudson's future. At this final workshop, residents can provide feedback on the plan's recommendations, drafted from the input residents provided at earlier meetings.
If memory serves, sixty-five to seventy people attended the drop-in workshop held in early June. At the September workshop, Gossips counted about twenty people present who were not part of Hudson government or the thirteen-member Steering Committee. The survey that was done to inform the revised comprehensive plan received responses from 366 Hudson residents, 6.28 percent of the population. It is unclear how much influence the survey results will have on the comprehensive plan since it has been reported that the demographic distribution of the respondents did not match the demographic distribution of the city as a whole. The majority of the survey respondents were white women who lived in the First or Third ward and had an annual household income of more that $50,000.
Hudson’s Project 2035. Pizza and Post-it notes and P-hacking. All to be filed away in a cabinet, never to be seen again until the library adds it to the history room in 2135
ReplyDelete🏛️ An apolitical resident-centered local city government would probably not:
ReplyDelete1️⃣ Announce an important meeting for public input with 5 working days notice *
2️⃣ Have that meeting conflict with other important scheduled/recurring resident meetings, especially HHA
3️⃣ Host and advertise the meeting within a quasi-private philanthropic group (Spark) that lobbies the city politically (however well intentioned)
🤑 And this whole SurveyMon(k)ey / Comprehensive Plan exercise that now cannot be relied on for future planning is costing the City of Hudson tax payer $200k +
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*(Or was this announced earlier but not on social media? We did not see this on the City website or Spark or other announcement newsletters until today)