RiverPlace - Not Needed or Wanted

I oppose completely the new largest mall in New England being built on the Green Meadow Golf course site on Lowell Road for the following reasons.

First and foremost has to be the traffic that will accompany full build out of what was at one time reported as a 375 acre site, and now at the Planning Board meeting of the 25th of April, we discover that the acreage is actually 450 acres containing quite a few areas of wetlands. I also oppose anything that will diminish what God put in place. The wetlands and wildlife habitat on the Green Meadow site will be destroyed forever by the intrusion of the RiverPlace Boulevard interchange off the Sagamore Bridge into the proposed RiverPlace site, as that interchange will violate 6.1 acres of prime wetland (source NH DOT) and will be, if built, a four-lane highway with a 16-foot median between the egress and ingress areas.

This brings me back to my unhappiness with the proposed traffic picture as depicted by the “experts” hired by W/S Development Company to “sell” this project here in our little Town of Hudson to the Selectmen, Zoning Board, Planning Board, the Conservation commission, and the Nashua regional planning Commission along with the “Chicken Farmers” as we, the residents, were referred to by two of the W/S experts during the elbowing and giggling between the two, during the concerns being identified by our residents and our citizens. I traverse the Lowell Road on just about a daily basis in my calling as a Licensed Real Estate Broker. I find the traffic on that road at certain times of the day, every day, just a sight less than completely out of control, as bumper to bumper is becoming a way of life with Hudson residents. As traffic moves slowly along each vehicle is spewing carbons out of its tail pipe and into the air that I, and you, breathe on a daily basis. Three lanes coming off the Sagamore Bridge, heading north on Lowell Road drops abruptly into two lanes just north of the Executive Drive traffic lights. If you ever wondered what “Road Rage” is, watch that area when you get the opportunity as that jammed up road goes quickly into a two lane road. There is also a turning or death wish lane in the middle of the road for turning left or right traffic attempting to exit Lowell Road. Can you just see in your mind’s eye what the traffic picture is slated to become with the addition of RiverPlace’s 5,000 plus employees, and shoppers from all points of the compass using our roads to get in and out of RiverPlace on a daily basis, plus add all of the new traffic signals all along Lowell Road (12, I understand, not a verified number) between Pelham and Chalifoux Roads in South Hudson. The traffic experts have not done their job, their traffic estimates and figures are suspect at best as they are not understandable nor feasible for a build out of such a tremendously large Mall/Lifestyle Center on 450 beautiful acres of Hudson land.

We, Hudson Grassroots Central, do not want RiverPlace to be approved nor built. We don’t need it and we don’t want it, or the automobile traffic it will bring to Hudson.

RiverPlace - Not Needed or Wanted

Ron Peters - Hudson