This morning, for the 4th or 5th time this year, I noticed that the back-to-back plastic scannable parking signs atop the meter pole on the odd side of the 700 block of Columbia just beyond Park Place were no longer where they had been for about the past 25 days. HUDseen last noticed the signs missing from that pole on September 5th (they were on the ground). Two more appeared within a day or three. Today's missing signs were not missing yesterday when I walked past them, so someone likely took a disliking to them last night. There is a saloon a few feet away. I don't care for that drinking hole, though a while back I heard that mayor Ferris was a regular. Maybe he still is.
Imagine seeing this every day and night outside your front door more often than you'd prefer. Who wouldn't want to kick it and spit on it (or pee on it -- hell, dogs can!) at least once every day? And that lovely white spray-painted circle! Was that really necessary, and for how many years will it remain beautifying the neighborhood?
In July of 2020, over 6 years ago, two truck route signs each were installed above the intersections of 3rd & Columbia and State/Columbia & Green. The former were meant to prevent trucks and tractor trailers headed north on 3rd approaching the turn on Columbia from continuing north past Columbia toward and onto State Street. The latter were meant to prevent trucks and tractor trailers headed south on Green Street from turning off of the truck route onto State (to then head all the way to 3rd to turn south there). At council meetings and via emails for months before those four signs appeared, I made a big stink about the issue of errant trucks and tractor trailers on State Street, reminding the city what they were ignoring and not doing properly or at all.
The two "temporary" (there's that word again!) A-frame signs that we've been so fortunate to have grace the northwest corner of 6th & Warren 24/7 for the past several months are associated with two businesses at the complex three blocks to the north. Yesterday's wind was not nice to those signs, even the still-standing metal one that weighs at least 40 pounds. Upright or not, the signs are a clear code violation.
According to the automated email response I got ten days ago from the Hudson Parking Bureau (with no personal name associated with it), today should be the day that the "temporary" closure of the Hudson Police Department's new Parking Bureau ends. (They're working out the kinks!) The apparently not-so-important bureau was closed all 5 days last week, plus the previous Friday, with the vacation possibly beginning the day before, on Thursday the 17th. (Someone was there on Wednesday the 16th.) The sign that has been on the window of the bureau's office for the past 10 or 11 days does not give any indication as to why the offices was closed or when it might reopen. Who the heck is in charge over there? Our four police detectives?
It happened within 6 or 7 weeks of Galvan's contractor creating the new sidewalks surrounding their hotel project at 4th & Warren and letting us little people walk on them. It happened within 25 days of HUDseen writing about the obscenely dangerous situation at the northern end of our new sidewalk on 4th Street. And it happened within 3 days of an email from me to mayor Ferris asking why the end of that sidewalk was still such a dangerous obscenity available for anyone to fall off of after so many weeks. "It" is the dumbest shit imaginable. (If I were to print Ferris' email reply to me, you might think I had made it up. Maybe another day if I have time.)
Last I checked, there is no such thing as a BUILDING DEPARTMENT associated with Hudson City Hall, not inside 520 Warren nor at any other lo...
