The City Council of Hudson, Ohio held a workshop on Tuesday, February 25, 2025, at 7:30 PM in Town Hall. The meeting covered a range of topics including goals for the Military & Veterans Commission and Environmental Awareness Committee, a sidewalk project on Stow Road, a noise wall study, marijuana regulations, and proposed land development code amendments. Council also considered a consent agenda for the March 4, 2025 meeting and introduced several pieces of legislation.
Go ahead and get started. I'd like to call this meeting to order. This is a duly noticed workshop meeting of Hudson City Council held in accordance with the sunshine laws of the state of Ohio. Section 121.22 and the City of Hudson Charter, Article 3, Section 3.02 for Tuesday, February 25th, 2025. And per ordinance 220.031 titled Workshop Meetings in item C. I would now like to turn the meeting over to Council President Foster so as to continue through the remaining workshop agenda items. Council President Foster, the floor and workshop meeting is yours. Thank you very much, Mayor. We'll move on to item number two, which is correspondence and council comments. If anybody on council has any correspondence they would like to share with the community or other members, please get my attention so I can assign you the floor. Mr. Sutton. Yep. Three things. First one, uh, I know staff has been keeping an eye on the Joanne situation. Um, but given where it is now, um, I think I would request that we have sort of an update on what our five-year plan looks like, um, knowing what we know now. Um, and I understand because tax information is confidential. If we have to do that in executive session, that's fine, but I I think council as a whole should probably review that and discuss that. Um second item, uh, I had a resident um offer a suggestion that we do a lot of studies and you know, traffic studies, and uh, you know, we're uh recently we were talking about downtown pedestrian safety studies and and all these uh thing this information that we get and we know about it, but they said it's not very easy for them to find it. Um, and so their ask was to figure out a way on the website to sort of have some sort of dump of all these studies that we've done over time so that they can easily access them and reference them. Um and then the last and uh final item just a reminder that uh Hudson Middle School is uh doing their musical on Friday, March 7th at 7 and Saturday, March 8th at 3 30 and 7. Uh you can buy tickets on the middle school website. Um these kids have been working for upwards of two hours every single day after school for several months now. Um so let's let's back the house and and uh show them some support. That's all. Sounds good. Mr. Banwig? Yeah, just uh two brief updates. The Military and Veterans Commission actually just met prior to this meeting, so I will let them provide the majority of the update of what they're doing when they present their goals uh shortly. But discussion about Memorial Day and getting ready for that ceremony thus far. Additionally, the Charter Review Commission wanted to give an update from their progress as the liaison. They're first starting by going to review all the sections one by one for the um items that have been identified for them in each section of the charter, and then come back later. So they want to be able to identify the administrative type of changes to cobble all those together, and where a uh a topic is contentious or it requires deeper debate, they want to bring those back later. So a single pass through the text and then deeper discussion on the um more significant topics for potential ballot initiatives and larger changes in the charter. But that's where we are right now. Thank you. Thank you. Um so I was looking this weekend. Uh friend had asked about you know availability of rental properties in town, and you know, I ended up going to and noticed what seemed to me to be an increase from when we you know first looked at legislation. Keep an eye on those. So I just wanted to make sure that um staff was monitoring that regularly and maybe you know could provide some kind of an update in the next coming few weeks or month, whatever. Uh I'll provide an update on the planning commission. The planning commission had a special meeting last night to review the new public works facility on Hudson Drive. Um, it was largely approved. There were about 14 conditions, 12 that were suggested by staff along with the industrial design subcommittee. In addition, there were two other conditions uh placed upon it by the planning commission. Most of the conditions that were discussed were related to minimizing impervious surface, uh, minimizing the environmental impact, um, potentially uh giving the neighbors a little bit better sound barrier and minimizing the you know cutting of trees and whatnot on the location. The plan accounts for I think it's 32 percent impervious surface on this area that may be able to get down to about 30 percent based on the suggestions that were provided by the commission and the industry industrial subdesign um and uh but it was approved and it will move forward from here on. Um and uh but it was approved and it will move forward from here on.