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Citizen’s petition seeks to update zoning bylaws, add warehouse definitions By Sarah Freedman Contributing Writer HUDSON — On the warrant for the annual Town Meeting is a citizen’s petition to provide clear definitions of structures such as warehouses and fulfillment centers in the zoning bylaws. The Hudson Planning Board recently held a public hearing on the article. Michael McCormack is the main proponent of the article, which was co-signed by 20 other residents who live on Autumn Drive, Strawberry Lane and Rotherham Way. He said the article was petitioned to address deficiencies that they saw with the current zoning bylaws. “As far as we can find the last substantial update was 1957,” he said. “Lots of things have changed since 1957. Things that are commonplace now were not even thought of.” According to a draft version of the warrant, the article would add definitions for a cold storage warehouse, parcel hub, fulfillment center, transload warehouse, standard warehouse and types of warehouse crossdecking. There are distribution centers that could be extremely large in scale with “storage to the ceiling,” McCormack said. Such centers operate 24-hours and all-yearround, he said, and the intent of the petition is to “add definitions to the current zoning bylaws Petition | 6
Bus drivers gather for informational picket By Laura Hayes Managing Editor MARLBOROUGH – Outside of the Early Childhood Center before the April 11 School Committee meeting, bus drivers waved and cheered as passing cars honked in support. The drivers are members of Teamsters Union Local 170, and they held signs in regards to their stalled contract negotiations with their employer, NRT. According to union representative Jim Marks, the Teamsters Union Local 170 has been negotiating with NRT for “a while” in a couple of school districts, including Marlborough. “We’ve been trying to get a contract with them; we’ve been trying to get them to talk about wages and certain things – just try to get serious about negotiations,” Marks said. “We’re having a hard time doing that.”
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Members of Teamsters Union Local 170 and their supporters picketed in Marlborough April 11.
Select Board votes to end services of town counsel By Sarah Freedman Contributing Writer HUDSON— Last August, the Hudson Select Board voted on three finalists for the town counsel, including their current town counsel of 37 years, Aldo Cipriano. However, the board was not able to reach a majority vote to retain Cipriano or the other two finalists.
As a result, Cipriano remained the town counsel for Hudson until a decision could be made about new counsel. At the April 11 meeting, the Select Board voted 3-1 to effectively end the town counsel appointment on June 30, with a separate vote to consider appointing new counsel with a start date of July 1.
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