Apartment complex owner wants road
KINGSTON, N.Y. » City lawmakers are considering a request to cede the main road through the Kingston Waterfront apartment complex in the city’s Rondout district to the development’s owner.
The matter was discussed at a recent meeting of the Common Council’s Laws and Rules Committee, but Chairman Jeffrey Ventura Morell, D-Ward 1, said there was not enough information in hand to hold a vote yet on transferring the ownership of Hudson Valley Landing Road.
“It seems they’re asking us for a deed,” Ventura Morell said of the complex owner, Kingston Waterfront LLC, “but I don’t have any supporting documents, so I don’t think we have all the information that would be necessary for us to do anything with this.”
Kingston Waterfront LLC is part of E&M Management, which also operates the Stony Run apartments in Kingston, the Sunset Garden complex in the town of Ulster and Lake Shore Villas in the town of Esopus.
Kingston Mayor Steve Noble, in a letter to lawmakers, said an easement could be granted that would allow the city to retain access rights to Hudson Valley Landing Road so it could repair water and sewer lines.
Kingston Waterfront LLC is “asking that the road into the complex be deeded to them, as the city of Kingston does not maintain said road,” Noble wrote. “They will also take over ownership and responsibility for the three LED lights in the development.”
The 68-unit Kingston Waterfront complex is off Rondout Landing (East Strand), across from the Hudson River Maritime Museum. Two small roads that connect to Hudson Valley Landing Road are included in the developer’s request.
Noble said the developer’s request was found to be in the “best interest ... [of] all parties” by the city Engineering Department and Department of Public Works.
Common Council President Andrea Shaut, though, was not certain there is sufficient support to justify a transfer.
“There were concerns brought up by other department heads,” she said. “I just think that this isn’t really wise to move forward with giving up a street without any information and without some of our departments being 100 percent ... with it.”