Ron Bogle, the new chair of the Planning Board, appeared at last night's meeting of the Conservation Advisory Council to propose that the Planning Board and the CAC might collaborate to achieve better outcomes. He suggested there were projects that had come before the Planning Board in the prior year "that would have benefited from input from the CAC." He didn't specify which projects, but two spring to mind: Mill Street Lofts and the conditional use permit for Colarusso's dock operations.
In the discussion that followed, CAC member Joshua Cohen noted that in Saugerties the Planning Board regularly asks the Conservation Advisory Council to weigh in on projects before it. This hasn't been happening Hudson. Quite the opposite. It will be recalled that former Common Council president Tom DePietro specifically advised against the CAC weighing in on the Colarusso issue.
It was speculated that Nathan Woodhull, who has served on the CAC and was recently appointed to the Planning Board, might serve as a liaison between the two bodies.
Could this be the beginning of a more enlightened age in Hudson?
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If Joe Ferris was called away to national or state service... and all he had done was appoint this more professional, intelligent, and collaborative Planning Board... he would still have been a better mayor than most, and the next 6 years would be better than the last.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Tom! You really never knew what you were doing or talking about, did you?
ReplyDeleteI have been in Hudson for 36 years. Took awhile for the Enlightenment to arrive.
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