Public Spaces Initiative February 2025 Board Update
Mission To develop and facilitate the creation of public park, art, and community spaces throughout the Village of Red Hook
Public Meetings are held the 4th Saturday of each month at 10 am, in person at Village Hall. Because of a conflict with the Repair Café, the January meeting was held on Sunday January 26[th] at 11AM in Village Hall.
Key Issues
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Seed Library : The PSI seed library has received donations of seeds from Sow Rite Seeds and Adams, First American Meadow, and the Hudson Valley Seed Company. A plan for volunteers to maintain the seed library was discussed.
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Repair Cafe : The PSI participated in the January 25[th] Repair Café on at the Red Hook Community Center with a “repair your garden” table providing information on winter garden activities such as soil amendments, seed starting, and planting layout planning. The Repair Café was very well attended and dozens of visitors stopped by the PSI table.
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Village Hall Garden Plan: The PSI team will be setting up a meeting with the Mayor to discuss potential locations. The approach is to use native plants for any garden to be created.
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Events: Excellent feedback is still coming from community members who participated in the fall Pumpkins in the Park event. A date will be identified with the Community Center for the annual Hello Blooms event and the PSI team will coordinate with the Village Events committee.
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Planning Update
The Village’s planner, Nelson Pope and Voorhis (NPV), is continuing to create draft zoning language to amend the existing code to create a Gateway North zoning district where the proposed mixed-use project on, and adjacent to, the Cookingham East property will be located. After several meetings with RUPCO, the potential developer of the on the southern portion of the Gateway site, NPV drafted additional zoning language to address how the affordability aspects of the project could be administered. This was incorporated into a new “workforce housing” section of the proposed zoning language which will be reviewed in an upcoming Board meeting. RUPCO is looking to get some level of certainty on the progress towards buildout of the additional sewer capacity as part of its progress towards acquisition of the property from the Town of Red Hook.