Hudson city council votes against rezoning dog track

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HUDSON - Students in Hudson will not be going to school at a place where adults used to bet on dog races. The City Council voted 5-1 last night against re-zoning the former Saint Croix Meadows greyhound track.

Voters in April agreed to let the Hudson School District buy the property for eight-and-a-quarter million dollars. School officials said it would have created more space, and relieved pressure at the current middle-and-high schools – both of which are at-or-over capacity.

City officials didn’t want to give up the 130-acre site. They said it could generate up to one-point-two-million dollars a year in property taxes, if a commercial or industrial project were to locate there. The school district disagreed. It hired consultants which found that the dog track site was not a desirable place for a business project.

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