Remarks by Chelsea McCoy
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“I do have several things I'd like to ask. First of all, thank you for that. I know that's a lot of work, and I appreciate the very thorough detail update for us. So I do have a couple questions. The... So the market hall and the, I'll just start with the market hall. Is that something that will be city owned or will that be privately owned?”
“Okay. And then with the survey, with the colors, the red, blue, and green, how many total was that? How many total surveys combined was that? Was that the combination of all the surveys that people took or was that just the online let's talk?”
“Okay. But that bar chart was 145 responses. Yes. Okay. This might be a random question. You might not know this yet, and that's fine. On Owen Brown, I know that now with the stoplight, there is a line that you're supposed to stop at. Do you know approximately how many cars from that point to the stop sign that can fit on the street? And I'll tell you why I'm asking, because I'm seeing if we're going to be having a market hall and a co-working space and a hotel and a community flex space. And now we have 74 houses that you're putting in, as well as the Fairmont houses, townhouses that are…”
“Are we looking to put in public bathrooms anywhere? So you're talking about a family gathering place. That's my biggest pet peeve with what we have now is that there's no public bathrooms for families and other people to use too. But when you have little kids, they have to go to the bathroom all the time. So is there a proposed public space so that people can use bathrooms like in the community hall and the...”
“So would they, I'm sorry, just a few more questions, I promise. So I know that from what we had and what you spoke to people about, the people were saying market hall and coworking space and a flex space. Do you feel that there's enough need for that in Hudson that those will be filled and not take away from, so I'll start with that. Do you think that there's enough need in Hudson for that to be filled?”
“Okay. And then another question I have, for the market hall, if we're talking about, like, I don't want to say program, but places people can go grab food and lunches. Did you speak with any of the restaurant owners downtown, business owners, even if they're not local to Hudson, but so the owners to see? I'm worried also about that taking away some business from lunch business or dinner business when our restaurants we currently have might not have enough to keep them going, that this would just...”
“Oh, and then another question that I had, and then this is, I'm wrapping it up, I'm sorry. Fine, please. I am curious a little bit too about the, if we have residential so close to businesses, will you put limits on hours for deliveries, for lighting, for noise? Just because this, if that's a market hall backing up and it's a venue space right up to residential, I'm worried that some of that might run in, we might run into some issues looking forward.”
“Perfect. Those are just a couple of comments and questions that I have. But thank you. I appreciate the thorough report and insight.”
“Yeah, I was a little bit surprised, honestly, when I read the email. We are, I guess the reason I was surprised was because I always thought the planning commission's role was to support council and have and work with them and they would take what we say and take it into consideration. Council can't do all of this all the time between all the different boards, all the different proposals that come through. They're supposed to lean on their commission and boards which is, which is a point. Now, I was appointed by the prior council, but at this point, I've served this council almost as long as…”
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