Planning board continues Mill Street affordable-housing hearing after wide public comment on parking, flooding and access

The Hudson Planning Committee on May 13 opened the public hearing for the Mill Street housing project and continued the hearing to May 29 at 6:30 p.m. after extensive public comment about parking, stormwater and site access.

The committee said the application had been revised and that some engineering materials were submitted late; the board set the next meeting for May 29 to allow time for staff and consultants to review outstanding documents and for the public to file written comments.

Why it matters: The Mill Street proposal drew hours of testimony from neighborhood residents and service providers because the site is low-lying, largely without sidewalks and has extremely constrained on-street parking. If built as proposed, neighbors said, the project would add dozens of households to a street they described as already at capacity for parking and vulnerable to floodwater.