The Register-Star reports this morning that our new, very expensive comprehensive plan will be late: "Hudson's draft comprehensive plan delayed until June."
According to the original schedule for the comprehensive plan, which can be found here, the draft plan was due in February 2025, and the final plan was to be completed by April 2025.
In commenting on the delay, Melissa Lee, principal of Public Works Partners, the consulting firm doing the Comprehensive Plan, said her group "was ensuring that the draft plan would fully align with the city's goals, and the goals of city residents." The article quotes the mayor's response to the delays:
Hudson Mayor Kamal Johnson said Thursday the draft of the comprehensive plan was in its final stages, and will be shown to the plan's steering committee first.
"Then it will be presented to the [Common] council and everyone else," he said. "It's pretty much finished, it just needs all the key stakeholders to look it over. It'll be available soon."
One wonders who the "key stakeholders" are. The names of members of the steering committee can be found here.
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Tom and Kamal’s “Project 2035.” An expensive consultant’s dream, done in secret by a committee hand selected by them alone in an attempt to codify their legacy and haunt us for decades. But just like all the comprehensive plans in the past, they’ll go straight to the filing cabinet, never to be seen again. See how the current Planning Board scoffs at any mention of previous plans when citizens speak about scatter site housing or the waterfront plans.
ReplyDeleteAnd guess who’s on the committee? Surprise, surprise—Hudson’s very own Robert Moses, Randall Martin. Never since Moses was there ever a public official that held so many appointments and power without winning one single election.
Interestingly enough, Peter Spear made a video today about city board appointments and making the process more transparent so that we can attract talent, new ideas and stop the cronyism.
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DeleteTune into the Parking Study Committee meeting later this month (if it doesn't get canceled) and see how many months the 3 phases of the kiosk project will each have to be pushed back or if any of the kiosks will appear this year as planned. That huge project, designed to increase parking revenue by quite a bit starting this year, also entails a paid consultant.
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