On May 12, the plans for the proposed "Waterfront Village" were presented to the Planning Board. Although the project will be completed in three phases, the entire project was presented to avoid the misfeasance of segmentation. All the drawings and renderings for the project that were submitted to the Planning Board can be found here. Gossips reproduced some of them here. One of the renderings also appeared in the Register-Star. Although the project is currently before the Planning Board, the renderings are being scrutinized and commented on in other public meetings.
At the Common Council Legal Committee meeting on May 14, when the committee was discussing the rezoning petition received regarding the project, Hudson resident Ronald Kopnicki made reference to the rendering shown below and cautioned the renderings were not to be trusted because the crane in the rendering does not appear to be where it currently is.
At the informal meeting of the Common Council on May 18, when Council president Margaret Morris called for New Business, Councilmember Henry Haddad (First Ward) brought up the proposed Waterfront Village and mentioned in particular this rendering:
Haddad said the rendering "shows properties not owned by Ben Fain demolished and used as parking lots." He alleged that residents of Cross Street and Tanners Lane have been "muscled out." He also claimed that there were only three occupied houses left on Tanners Lane.
Gossips has learned that Ben Fain, who is proposing the project, will be at Tuesday's Common Council meeting to clarify the renderings and respond to concerns. The meeting is a hybrid, taking place at 6:00 p.m. in person at City Hall and on Teams. Click here for the link to join the meeting remotely.
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All the trees ! LOL That will never be.
ReplyDeleteIf you look at the periphery of the area rendering it becomes a surrealist AI nightmare. Zoom in on the weird buildings on Allen Street. How massive the Antique Warehouse building is. Or how the railroad tracks are lush with trees and greenery, including the gravel at the intersection of the grain train tracks from Amtrak. How did you expect people to react when their homes and streets have disappeared or become weed boxes in a grassy field. I’m generally supportive of this project but they need to step up their public and community relations game. There’s a “cliche small town big bad developer” power vacuum now that Galvan is winding down. You don’t want to be a the guy everyone wants to point their fingers at, deserved or undeserved. You got to be careful this early with setting impressions. They need to hire someone who knows the political and public landscape in Hudson to proof what they publicly submit.
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