Why did the “design team” (gimme a break) meet with council members individuall Paul???? Trying to avoid a public meeting where all five could hear each other’s opinions and the public could be present? Hmmm, sounds like you tried to avoid the Open Public Meetings guidelines.
The point is, why have each member come in for a private meeting? They should each have been able to hear what the others are thinking, what plans they are favoring, and their reasoning. This stupid system circumnavigates the open public meeting act, and it does not good. Opinions will form before the December 2 meeting, when in fact they all should have started right out looking together in front of the public. That is not Paul’s way. He proclaims openness and transparency, and then holds these secret one-on-one meetings. Kind of like sliding the Health Barn in before telling the residents in the neighborhood. Kind of like letting the RSBA hand-deliver the ballfield grant application. Everything is done wrong under this regime, but it is deliberately done wrong in order for them to control the agenda. The three of them and Roberta stink.
Come on, we all know this was done intentionally to avoid a public meeting. If they all were together, then the two decent and honest voices of Mike and Susan would have been heard. Instead their comments can be ignored because no one heard them. If all five had been together to look at the plans and consider them, notice would have to have been made and the public would,have to have been invited. This is exactly what our terrible council majority does not want. Gwenn complains loudly about how long the public comments go. Paul says GOOD if no one comes to the microphone. Albert opines that he has to get home because he has a day job. Clearly these private meetings behind closed doors is what they prefer. Problem is, it is against the law.
Has anyone noticed that this garage as illustrated is going to be taller or as tall as the buildings proposed for multiple housing units? Drive down Rt. 4 East and take a look at the parking garage at the Mall on the right hand side of the road. I think that is 4 or 5 stories tall. We’re going to put that in the middle of Ridgewood?
The nerve of these three, and the contempt they have openly shown toward residents for issue after issue, now encouraging the inept village manager to do the same, may be unprecedented in this town.
Let’s take our lesson about ever voting again for any “group” of candidates. What they mean is that they will do whatever the strongest of them demands. Any candidate I could respect would run as an independent thinker. It’s supposed to be five minds up there, not a blockade.
Well said 12.05. The ridgewood I knew would invoke any clause to lower the height on your kids play shed so it would not violate the Streetscape
Etc .There should be so much blowback on this …so much COOLAID sloshing around after the NON BINDING But now the law of the land supreme leaders in the pockets of the Developers .IMAGINE VALLEYS
REVISED APPLICATION NEXT..THEY WANT TO BUILD THIS ON THE HIGHEST GROUND SITE IN THE COMMERCIAL ZONE,All for the peak restaurant trade on Friday and Saturday nights what a scam..taxpayers on the hook and expect to pay dearly for this mismanagement of towns bonding
These 3 have been meeting secretly for years and have already been caught twice meeting with developers without the dissenting minority present. Is it just coincidence that they always vote the same way on everything? I’m not sure what galls me more – the fact that they’re doing it or the fact that they think that nobody will notice.