“When I moved to Ridgewood 25 years ago, water restrictions were imposed rarely, for relatively brief periods due to drought conditions. In recent times, these restrictions are more-or-less a permanent feature. Now we can justify this, as the first commenter has done, by championing conservation and how unnecessary grass is. However, the reality is that potential home buyers want their green lawns and towns that are competing for this real estate market do not have similar restrictions. This may be a minor point in the real estate decision making, but when people start doing their Google research, the Ridgewood negatives (e.g. school rankings, multi-story garage, low-income apartments, and permanent water restrictions), it has an effect.”
If the state is going to force us to allow developers in town to build slums for more people to move in, then the state should bring in more water so we don’t have these shortages.
or the developers pay a higher fee and their residents
It’s a result of conservation mindset. I.e. all resources are finite so let’s conserve. Good for companies selling smart sprinkler systems and such. Bad for kids entertainment and (arguably) plants. You pick what’s more important. Does conservation actually impact environment? Who knows.
It’s the “STUPID” part of:
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We’re RICH and STUPID
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Did the Ridgewood water utility company receive any federal grant money. Because we do know that there is a Lotta money out there.
From what we hear through the investigation we are seeing that sanitation and recycling are under The water department , So we assumed that the water department employees can help out Sanitation and recycling.