Planning Board, Public Hearing

1. 0:02is that u these are comments from the public not a discussion with the board. Um each uh uh commenter will be given three minutes to make comments. Um and it's an essential and important part of the uh planning board process. You may be familiar with other boards and commissions where we have public comments in each meeting. uh for us because the application process is prolonged sometimes a year and a half two years it would be inappropriate to have public comments mid-stream. So the public hearing is the final piece of the process that an applicant goes through uh in the approval process. So it's a it's an important aspect of the process. It it also gives us the perspective of lived experience uh information that we may not have available to us except through your comments. So, thank you for making a commitment to be a part of the process and for being here tonight to make comments. Uh
2. 1:06Jean, I understand you're a pretty good timekeeper. Would you be willing to to keep talking? So Jean will tell us when we've got 30 seconds left. Is that right J? Okay. And uh and again we have so few that if if there is a request for an additional three minutes at the end of public comments we happy to to uh accept that. >> Good point. Thank you. Linda reminded me that we ought to offer the applicant an opportunity to make a brief presentation if they are interested in doing that. Uh essentially Penrose is a developer that will that's proposing to renovate the existing John Edwards building for 65 senior apartments low income apartments
3. 2:09site is existing as you all know that we are not proposing any changes to the site on the interior some minor landscaping on the exterior cleaning up the building. No additions or any major change. >> Thank you. So, do you have the names, Linda, or do we just call? >> Okay. So, we'll just type you as a as as in the order that you prefer. So, who would like to speak first? Can we do public hearing? >> I'm sorry. Procedural question. We need a motion to open the public. Sorry about that. So motion to moves to open the public hearing. Is there a second? >> Nathan seconds. >> Yes. >> Spear. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Jens. >> Thank you. Now, please start by introducing yourself and identifying where you live.
4. 3:10>> I'm Jennifer Belton. I am a representative for the board where this building is um on the common council and I just wanted to come here and say that I support this very much. It's a building that is stood derelict for a very long time and they're still paying for it as as community members. um uh they have agreed to do all of the required um remediation and they are not as they said um going to do any other u site manipulation. So I'm super excited about this frankly um I think it's something that our community needs and I'm happy to support them. >> Thank you. Who's next? Sure. Alan Weaver, fourth board. Um, I'm here to say the same thing. I think this is a great project for the city of Hudson. It takes a derelict building, puts it on
5. 4:13the tax roles, and it provides housing for Hudson, which it means. Uh, my question to the developers are, will the development take section 8 housing vouchers? >> I don't know the answer to that. someone online. >> Thank you. >> There's anyone from Benrose online to answer that question. Who would that be? >> Lindsay or William. >> Uh I see Laura and >> I don't need the answer. >> Okay. But you said slowly. >> It is low. So you have certain AMI requirements. Okay. So if you could confirm whether that's going to be an option for any additional comments so long as so long as there's no other
6. 5:17comments taking comments from from so yeah as long as the audience is good motion to close. So if there are no further public comments, motion to close, Jame, >> sir. All right. Uh why don't I just declare as chairman that we're closed and not do the voting. Um I think with unanimous vote >> unanimous vote. Thank you. Let me let me redo this. Without objection, I will determine that this was a unanimous vote to close the public hearings. Thank you. Um, we're now moving to

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