Tonight, after the meeting had gone on for three hours, the Planning Board granted conditional site plan approval to Mill Street Lofts.
The resolution to grant approval passed with four affirmative votes--the minimum needed for approval--cast by Theresa Joyner, Randall Martin, Gene Shetsky, and Bettina Young. The two newest members of the Planning Board--Veronica Concra and Gabrielle Hoffmann, who was attending her very first meeting--voted no. Kali Michael was absent from the meeting.
More information to follow about what transpired at the meeting.
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Step 1: Dubiously acquire land, sidestep conservancy and land-use laws.
ReplyDeleteStep 2: Propose out of character public housing in a known flood zone.
Step 3: Botch the PB process, appoint conflicted parties, guaranteeing lawsuits and annulment. Pit neighbors against neighbors.
Step 4: Kamal wheels out struggling tenants for moral cover, even Albany residents, who make emotional appeals.
Step 5: Stack the room with his “Greater Promise Neighborhood” nonprofit "youth", who coincidentally had a "community action" day on the same day...
Step 6: Add a leftist activist group... oh sorry, immigrant "sanctuary" rights advocates.
Step 7: Smear Habitat for Humanity homeowners, citizens of America, as "greedy" and "selfish" for not wanting more flooding. Smear elected leaders who insist on due process or propose common sense solutions as "anti-housing".
Step 8: Actually admit on the record that local residents at the meeting won’t get the units anyway, and that there will be regular floods blocking the road, "but it will mostly clear in a few hours"
Step 9: Builders (hello, Nepo-baby Sean) reveal a $2.5M payday, to start with...
Thus continues the Hudson Housing Industrial Fraud Complex: performance in, profits out. The poor stay poor, just not the right poor.
The hard-working residents who dare pay for their own land and homes, who pay for Kamal and Michelle's salary... screw them, their basements will flood and their kids will fall into a literal 6 foot deep trench.
When all is done... no resident at last night's meeting will get new housing... Sean (or really his lawyers) will have made some money, Sean will inherit his dad's business, the tax paying Mill Street residents who bought land and homes with the expectation of property rights, due process, peace, and the state park next door... will have spent hundreds of hours that they do not have...
This is Kamal and Tom DePietro's Hudson: duplicitous, hypocritical, an engine for animosity and political performance.
Is there a hero who can save us?
Any information on The Boulevard project? Did it get voted on? -Theresa Nicholson
ReplyDeleteIt, too, was approved, earlier in the meeting, as was the conditional use permit for the new rector at Christ Church to keep chickens.
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