Sign Our Petition

We, the undersigned, believe that the Partition Street Project needs improvements to provide greater public access and views along the waterfront, protect Nanny Goat Hill, and present an attractive landscaped entrance with buildings that fit into the historic context of the Village.

Info: PartitionStreetProject.com
Supported by Saugerties Citizens for Smart Development

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David Radovanovic, 01/15/10

Penelope Milford,
Our most valuable economic asset is the small village character of Saugerties. If this highly visible sight is to be developed in the middle of a residential and scenic area, it needs to fit in architecturally. We do not need another Hampton Inn/Holiday Inn generic hotel and parking lot Any new development should adhere to the guidelines of the Saugerties Comprehensive Plan. Why should we undo our sane efforts for wise planning for the financial benefit of these developers? The village has yet to see substantial benefits from Struzieri's HITS development. What makes anyone believe that this hotel project will bail the village out of debt any more than HITS or any of our existing generic hotels (HowardJohnson/Holiday Inn) have?

Virginia Luppino,

Richard Holloway,

Ronnie Shushan,

Jesse Cunningham,
Just say no to eye sores!

Yannick aum,

Elaine Chaback,

Dani Siddle,

Jeffrey Drucker,

Danielle Baum,

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Krista Munger,

Beth Loven,
We want to help develop Saugerties  into a beautiful, thriving village that will draw tourists and enrich not only the partition street project owners, but the whole community, as well. 

Vivian Beatrice,

Sven Loven,

Erin Schantz-Hilton,

Fredrick Duignan,

Bonnie Smith,

Ian L. Jones,
I watched a beautiful sunrise over this area many times...big medicine at ths locale...shame to turn it into a parking lot for the elite

Erica Pivko,
As the Comprehensive Plan adopted by the Village of Saugerties in 1999 states:
"ensure lead agencies implementing the State environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) follow the mandate [Section 617.1(d)] to consider social as well as economic and environmental factors, produce documents understandable to the general population, and provide full opportunity for public comments and consideration of project alternatives that are compatible with the existing community character."

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It would be a travesty not to maintain views like these as they are fast disappearing everywhere.

Larry Brown,

Barbara Ghebreselassie,
Please do not ignore the town's input on Partition Street Project.com

Betsy Hallerman,

James Kricker,

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I urge the Village of Saugerties Planning Board to issue a position declaration under SEQRA to ensure that this development wil have no adverse environmental impacts on the community.

Rosemarie Brackett,
We should learn to recognize, appreciate and nuture our landmarks and respect them as part of our community's deep history.

Stephen Brackett,

Douglas Engel,

Christine Dinsmore,

Elise Muller,

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WILLIAM MULLER,

Suzanne Bennett,

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Please do not ignore the input from the community. These are entirely reasonable requests to make the project better for everyone.

Marta Szabo,

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We own a summer house on Esopus Creek Rd, and have been on that road since the 1950's!! We always take company to see the dam and feel strongly that there must be public access for viewing. The waterfalls over the dam are so much a part of Saugerties, especially after heavy rains, that viewing must be provided.

Rosanne Braslow,

jacalyn jackson,

John Anthony West,
A Dissenting View

The sincere people opposing this project are doing so for the wrong reasons. It is quite clear that our Saugerties officials are determined to take our backward little village out of its picturesque historic slumber, carry it forward into the 21st Century, and make it look like everywhere else -- an admirable objective. Indeed, homogeneity is a signature aspect of the vaunted "American Dream".

But opponents have not thought the matter through. Destructive, mindless, selfish and predictably economically doomed (in the midst of the worst financial crisis since the '30's) as the prospective hotel may be, it is not enough, in and of itself, to completely destroy our village's individuality. A better plan is needed.

As it stands, we Saugertesians have acquired a deplorable inferiority complex over the years. While our town, mired in the past, still looks to this day like a Hollywood set for Thornton Wilder's "Our Town", we have watched with consuming envy as neighboring Kingston and Catskill acquired their iconic mega stores. Walmart, Sam's Club, Lowe's, Home Depot ... you name it ... all of them creating bottlenecks and traffic jams worthy of much bigger modern cities, destroying any number of local home-based businesses in the process. And that is, after all, what 21st Century America is all about. Yet what do we have to speak for 21st Century Saugerties? Nothing! A new but retro horse farm and that's about it. Hardly anything has been despoiled. It's a disgrace! Even our supermarket has a kind of Mom-and-Pop charm to it and it does hardly anything to make our village unliveable. We still have to shop at Smith's and Krause's and Mother Earth and Hudson Valley Bakery. What have you done to put them out of business? Nothing! Anyway, not yet.

But here's your chance, Saugerties Town Board and DSBC (Deluded Saugerties Business Community). Say NO to the hotel, and then bring in a Walmart of our own! And how about a subsidy to entice MacDonald's and the other junk food outlets off 9W where they do relatively little damage and put them on the waterfront, too? With a little bit of forethought, you can completely destroy Saugerties in one fell swoop, maybe even provoke an article in Fortune magazine and put Saugerties on the Corporate Map for all time.

A Dissenting View

The sincere people opposing this project are doing so for the wrong reasons. It is quite clear that our Saugerties officials are determined to take our backward little village out of its picturesque historic slumber, carry it forward into the 21st Century, and make it look like everywhere else -- an admirable objective. Indeed, homogeneity is a signature aspect of the vaunted "American Dream".

But opponents have not thought the matter through. Destructive, mindless, selfish and predictably economically doomed (in the midst of the worst financial crisis since the '30's) as the prospective hotel may be, it is not enough, in and of itself, to completely destroy our village's individuality. A better plan is needed.

As it stands, we Saugertesians have acquired a deplorable inferiority complex over the years. While our town, mired in the past, still looks to this day like a Hollywood set for Thornton Wilder's "Our Town", we have watched with consuming envy as neighboring Kingston and Catskill acquired their iconic mega stores. Walmart, Sam's Club, Lowe's, Home Depot ... you name it ... all of them creating bottlenecks and traffic jams worthy of much bigger modern cities, destroying any number of local home-based businesses in the process. And that is, after all, what 21st Century America is all about. Yet what do we have to speak for 21st Century Saugerties? Nothing! A new but retro horse farm and that's about it. Hardly anything has been despoiled. It's a disgrace! Even our supermarket has a kind of Mom-and-Pop charm to it and it does hardly anything to make our village unliveable. We still have to shop at Smith's and Krause's and Mother Earth and Hudson Valley Bakery. What have you done to put them out of business? Nothing! Anyway, not yet.

But here's your chance, Saugerties Town Board and DSBC (Deluded Saugerties Business Community). Say NO to the hotel, and then bring in a Walmart of our own! And how about a subsidy to entice MacDonald's and the other junk food outlets off 9W where they do relatively little damage and put them on the waterfront, too? With a little bit of forethought, you can completely destroy Saugerties in one fell swoop, maybe even provoke an article in Fortune magazine and put Saugerties on the Corporate Map for all time.

John Anthony West

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A large property like that should be on the edge of town, not in the center.
Traffic is already difficult. Use the Woodstock 94 site instead.

Doug Milford,
This is critical to the economic success of all of Saugerties, which depends on people who wish to visit a beautiful, historic place, not to mention the village residents themselves.

Steve Almaas,

chris maxwell,

James Manuel,

Seth Andrew Schwartz,
These steps must be taken in order to preserve the unique character of Saugerties.

Barbara Mansfield,

mary q. o\'rourke,

Thisbe Nissen,

ellen greenberg,

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Grey Ivor Morris,

Prudence Karr,

Kieley Michasiow,

Bill Goonan,

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