City of Hudson Planning Commission Meeting - January 13, 2025

Call this meeting to order.

Yes, we'll begin the um Monday, January 13th, 2025 Industrial Design Subcommittee meeting.

We have one item on the agenda, PC 2024 1339, and that is the industrial design subcommittee we'll review case 24139 for Chaya USA.

This is a in uh industrial edition.

Um here's the the existing building, and it's a it's a rear addition.

Oh sorry, I'm not wrong.

And um in our staff memo, um if everyone got a chance to read that, we just we had a few comments.

Um one had to do with the uh overall massing, um, which is two A efforts must be made to reduce the overall visual impact for large industrial structures.

Um we noted some ways that can be accomplished.

Um variations in color, roof line modulation materials, increased landscaping or vertical facade breaks.

Um, and then we had some recommendations for um the item B regarding uh fenestration placement on the building.

So had a couple comments.

Uh everything else appeared to meet the design standards uh for reference.

Those standards are a bit more streamlined in this zoning district for industrial buildings, districts six and eight, um, compared to our full architectural design standards.

So those were my staff comments.

Um if you'd all like to come up and and speak if you want to add anything or if you've had a chance to digest the staff comments, um we'll turn it over to the board for for comment.

Um I'm Jeff Surto, uh architect for the project.

So the uh the intent of the building really was to just continue the existing appearance and the massing at one point.

This building was anticipated to be this large uh in built-in phases like this.

So we've continued with the same materials, same color scheme landscaped um the site in accordance with the ordinance.

Yeah, so I'm happy to take any quick questions.

Any questions, John?

Yeah, on the site plan that was submitted.

Is that the landscaping plan?

There is a separate landscape plan.

Yeah, there's some buffering requirement along the property line.

Yeah, there's another pretty well landscaped currently.

Um the portion that wasn't was down here.

Landscaping the side of the building itself.

Um the staff comments noted that um just elevations were less windows, and wondered if you could add more either more windows or more trees.

Uh well, could we?

Yes, we could.

Um it's production space and warehouse space, so there isn't really a lot of uh people, I guess was the intent.

Um there's not a lot of offices on those faces.

Okay.

We provided some clear story windows across the top of that to get some natural light into that space, uh, similar to what we had in the original building.

So, yes, so for reference, we for the staff comments we recommended um the north elevation was kind of tied to our planning commission commission recommendations for the site plan, which we'll get into after after this um subcommittee meets, but it would it would be a um uh additional landscaping evergreens um along the fascia of the building and the west elevation here.

We recommended uh penetration every third bay, you have it you know depicted as every fourth bay just to add some more uh penetration to that side.

Okay, just to recap those staff comments.

Yeah, so so basically you've got 10 windows on there, uh you know that would go to 13 windows if you went to three, sure.

Um and then the suggestion was uh a tree every between every window to accommodate the windows on every spaced, like on the east side.

Okay, so that would put you like at 14 trees, then you got seven right now.

That's fine.

Um I guess the same thing on the north elevation, so the west and the north both spacing entries.

Um the the trees are they about you know 30 feet off the building?

Is that what the intent is?

Uh they kind of look like in plan.

Yep, yeah, 30, 50, you know, with the base 50 or so.

We don't want them so close that they're growing into it.

Correct.

Yeah, yeah.

So I think that's a good location.

Okay.

Um if you have to pop them on this um what is the bottom right side?

That's the northeast side.

Correct.

Um pop them on the outside of that track.

I think that would be fine there, because you're kind of limited in trees there to the coverage to the residential on that that particular corner because of the wetland behind that little area.

So I have one.

Alan, anybody?