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| Hudson Point is a 349-acre, mixed-use traditional neighborhood design (TND) project overlooking the scenic Hudson River in the Town of Esopus, N.Y., Ulster County near Kingston. The project will consist of a mixture of 396 residential units with several housing types, a bed & breakfast hotel, a recreation center and spa, and a mixed-use village center encompassing 40,000 square feet of office and retail uses. Designed by world-renowned planners Andres Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company and Robert A.M. Stern Architects, the project has been touted as a model for development in the county and region. |
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| The parcel had a 15-year-old Planned Unit Development (PUD) approval in place calling for the development of approximately 400 apartment and townhouse units and a nine-hole golf course designed in a conventional suburban subdivision fashion. Environmental regulations changed since the early 1990s, making a greater portion of the site unsustainable for development. Town officials were hesitant to amend the zoning due to concerns on increased environmental and fiscal impacts. |
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| After numerous studies and plan modifications, Somerset Development devised a plan that will create more open space, greater positive fiscal impacts and less site disturbance than the original approval through a traditional neighborhood design and context-sensitive design. |
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