I feel horribly sad that this stupidity was not put behind us as many believed would happen after the referendum. True, the referendum applied to a specific bond and a specific price, but as others point out here, we’re approaching that dollar figure anyway. HORRORS, especially at this moment in the village’s fiscal history. A garage was never meant to be at that location until the Aronsohn crew began pounding it into our heads. Building it is a big mistake that will be recognized soon, when the money has been spent and that little corner destroyed.Smaller is better, but merely reconfiguring and resurfacing the lot would be even better and cost relatively nothing. I believe this council is allowing itself to be swayed by the squeakiest wheels in town, many with much to gain, financially or politically, from the construction of this monstrosity and others. Those council members who still have a conscience and common sense will deeply regret their decision. Like an engaged person who can’t face admitting that love is gone and dreads the upcoming marriage but can’t disappoint their parents and friends or justify losing the money already spent, we will apparently go through with this, only to rue it later. It will be too late to get a divorce before the first anniversary, as can happen in such cases. Such an edifice in that spot will be ugly and overbearing at any price and in any style…it will cast shadows over a nice sunny area with outdoor tables…it will increase traffic that is already near-lethal. And it will cost us dearly when dollars are badly needed in the municipality for other things.
The above is a wonderful Comment. Perfectly expressed. Please forward this message to the members of the council. And read it at a council meeting.
I have been saying this for years: No garage on Hudson Street.
Pucciarelli and Hauck were so busy gazing into each others eyes while licking their lips. No wonder everything went to hell with them in charge.
No proper four-story parking garage could ever be wedged into so small a footprint. If it were built it would be the height of inefficiency. So much of the first, second, and third levels would be taken up by ramps, stairwells, etc. that the overall structure will yield a pathetically small number of additional parking spaces above and beyond what we have now. The location is so obviously wrong for this size and kind of structure that its future construction must be primarily intended to benefit one or more Friends of Aronsohn. The fact that the Village will suffer long term harm seems not to have been a concern.
Remember the majority of the Village Residents voted for these three. Thank them.
Aronsohn’s long game continues to pay off for him. “Is it wrong that he’s smiling?” Yes.
That location will be pointed to by the high density housing developers as overflow parking.
10:56 SURVEY SAYS…put a final BULLET into this Ahronsohn Rhino.
amd let’s let ahead and not back for long term answers of what we what this town to be outside of somebody else’s Cashregister that needs cleaning out…lets start with paving the roads and rebuild Rome stronger from there.the restaurants are Full at peak..get over it folks We ain’t paying for some Roman colosseum for Fish and the Greek,
How about doing something we really need like paving our streets.
I will never pay for extortionate parking in a multi-level garage. I’ll just take my business elsewhere.
” Nice sunny area” it’s a parking lot already folks . The town needs parking
8:30
Then pave the damm Lots.paint some stall lines..