tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post3253284777580738498..comments2024-03-27T22:52:12.619-04:00Comments on The Gossips of Rivertown: CLC Seeking to Acquire Land in North BayCarole Osterinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16010623982526286408noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-63787560105661759332023-05-13T03:44:46.977-04:002023-05-13T03:44:46.977-04:00Hilary Hillman submitted this comment by email:
T...Hilary Hillman submitted this comment by email:<br /><br />This is a very exciting trail plan put forward by the CLC. This will give Hudson residents and visitors access to the Greenport Conservation area and many more people will be able to see the amazing views over the Hudson and to the Catskills from the ridge. <br /><br />I am thrilled about this proposal form the Columbia Land Conservancy.Carole Osterinkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16010623982526286408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-26902347458909398652023-05-11T09:14:17.176-04:002023-05-11T09:14:17.176-04:00City Hall didn't "drop the ball" on ...City Hall didn't "drop the ball" on the DRI award to stabilize a handful of shacks and remove the rest. Rather, it exploited the Covid crisis to exclude the project's organizers and the public from even knowing what was going on. (City Hall maintained - and I believe unlawfully - that the DRI proceedings were not subject to the state's Open Meetings Law.) <br /><br />So for years the DRI committee meetings have continued, but without any outside knowledge or input. No one dropped a ball, that was a decision.<br /><br />Where things stand now is that the city will accept the sole bid entertained for a sham remediation, and subsequent demolition, by a close friend of one of the DRI committee members who'll take the entire DRI award for this work. (Corruption alert: this demo- friend hails from Stuyvesant.)<br /><br />But watch for an arrangement that's being cooked up between the city and an external party, though it won't be with the CLC. <br /><br />Even several years ago Hudson residents would have demanded transparency. Today Hudsonians are little better than sheep. City Hall not only knows it, but its creatures have actively tamed us.<br /><br />"Dropped the ball" my eye! <br />unheimlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00204285837938988668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-65402906999147542352023-05-11T07:43:45.606-04:002023-05-11T07:43:45.606-04:00While they are at it the city should donate the No...While they are at it the city should donate the North Bay former Furgary area. CLC could get rid of those shacks and do something productive with that land. The city really dropped the ball on that, along with the Dunn warehouse, that area is a real embarrassment. P. Winslowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08273783030122540297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-7597521262505811782023-05-10T17:10:23.433-04:002023-05-10T17:10:23.433-04:00This is a wonderful plan to give Hudson direct wal...This is a wonderful plan to give Hudson direct walking access to the Greenport Conservation Area.<br /><br />Presumably Harney and Sons would also need to grant an easement across a chunk of their property behind their building, or FASNY along their property line. Neither landowner is currently putting those portions of their property to any productive use.Woodhullhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07819147804791149405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-30948832819758713002023-05-10T14:47:15.653-04:002023-05-10T14:47:15.653-04:00Great idea! Do it. Thank you CLC.Great idea! Do it. Thank you CLC.unheimlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00204285837938988668noreply@blogger.com