As HHA closes out the year, we would like to give special recognition and thanks to our all-volunteer Board of Directors. These individuals work tirelessly to provide quality programming, produce newsletters, research historic buildings, honor preservation and advocate on important issues to help protect the historical integrity of our community. We are grateful for their commitment and expertise as they help maintain the high standards of our organization.
THANK YOU!
Nora Jacobs, Vice President/Marketing Committee Chair
Marty McCormick, Treasurer
Barbara Van Blarcum, Secretary
Rebecca Leiter, Research Committee Chair
Linda Matty, Program Committee Chair
Jon Ridgway, Newsletter Editor/Advocacy Committee Chair
Shelley Sedlacek, Preservation Awards Chair
Erin Dickinson
Nicholas Kent
Phil Leiter
Betsy Lockwood
Susan Newman
Curt Van Blarcum
Hudson Comprehensive Plan
Please make your voices heard! The Comprehensive Plan Steering Committee is working on a statistically valid Community Survey with ETC Institute, a firm that specializes in gathering data from residents to help local governments with community planning. The purpose of the survey is to determine the wants and needs of Hudson. Draft questions were submitted by the committee, revised, and discussed at subsequent meetings, and a final survey is being completed based on feedback. A random sampling technique will be used to select households, which will receive the mail survey. However, if you don’t receive one, you will be able to complete the survey online. The tentative dates for the survey are May 17 through June 14, 2023. HHA will remind you of this important research and your opportunities to participate as details are finalized.
For more information about the Comprehensive Plan, please click here.
1927 Building Agreement Governing Use of the Property
On May 31, 2022, the Hudson City School District (HCSD) passed a resolution authorizing its representatives to enter into negotiations with the Quagliata family on the future use of 2.7 acres comprising the 1927 Building site that would require the property to be used for public school purposes. Upon reaching a mutual agreement, a donation to the HCSD was to be made by the Quagliata Family Foundation.
The Agreement was finalized in April 2023. Some of the provisions in the document are as follows:
- The Quagliata Foundation's donation to the School District may be used for any purposes consistent with the operation of a public school and for any purposes necessary to carry out the School District's obligations.
- Ten thousand dollars will be used to assist in the development of a concept plan for the property consistent with the Agreement.
- The use of the property is restricted to educational purposes that comply with Federal, State and local regulations, including but not limited to purposes consistent with the operation of a public school district.
- The use of the service alley on Elm Street will be limited to faculty/staff and emergency purposes (consistent with past uses) or may be eliminated entirely.
- A 99-year covenant obligates the School District to retain, keep, maintain, and preserve the lawn and oak trees that currently exist on the westernmost 180 feet of the Property, referred to as the “Preserved Area.”
- If the lawn and oak trees cannot be reasonably retained, kept, maintained, and/or preserved, the HCSD agrees that the “Preserved Area” will be kept as “open space” accessible to the public.
- The “open space” may include the following uses (and other similar uses) such as grassy areas, walkways, a rain garden or similar in-ground natural water run-off control, benches suitable for a park setting, natural landscape enhancements such as mounds or boulders, shrubbery, statues or monuments not above eight (8) feet in height, trees, or planting beds. It may not include structures other than those necessary to support the foregoing uses.
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