The Kingstonian project is proposed to include a 475-space parking garage, 129 market-rate apartments, a boutique hotel at the warehouse site and 40,000 square feet of retail space.
Neil Bettez first ran for New Paltz Town Supervisor before it was cool for scientists to do things like that.
Possible uses for the money include Uptown transportation, a Midtown rail trail, sprucing up parks and other public spaces, free public WiFi, and many others.
Weighing property rights against the change in quality of life brought about by the sharp increase in short-term visitors in residential neighborhoods.
Saugerties continues its gradual transition from a town where the Republicans almost always won local elections to a town where the Democrats increasingly win. The shift in the past five and a half years has been slow but steady. The odds are that it will continue.
The state program opens grant opportunities for municipalities to take measures intended to “reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to a changing climate while saving money, building a green economy and promoting a clean environment.”
Plans call for the conversion of the Tillson Elementary School, closed in 1983, into a 32-unit apartment complex.
‘Government can’t fix everything and it wasn’t meant to … [I want to] get a handle on what works and what doesn’t work.’
An unusual array of participants took part in the December 5 Gardiner Town Board meeting.
The last time New Paltz Town Council members didn’t reappoint a planning board member who wanted to stick around, he ended up becoming village mayor.