the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, Mayor Aronsohn moves to recommend that we push back our consideration of the 5 housing amendments until February .
It is well documented that the Village council agreed to 4 comprehensive, independent impact studies regarding the high density housing .The hundreds of residents were present on September 30th and the thousands watching at home remember very clearly the council voting in favor of doing 4 comprehensive independent impact studies (financial, school, traffic, infrastructure). While Deputy Mayor Albert Pucciarelli voted against the new impact studies ,Gwenn Hauck, Susan Knudsen ,Michael Sedon and the Mayor Paul Aronsohn all agreed to do the 4 comprehensive studies.
Other issues based on the September 30th meeting is the residents understanding that these 4 comprehensive studies:
1) will not be based on any previously done studies.
2) will include the 4 multifamily developments, the Hudson street Garage and the North Walnut Street redevelopment zone.
3) will be handled by a single independent firm outside of the village’s jurisdiction.
The Mayor has since been walking back the vote and currently seems to feel he voted for 1 impact study with the possibility of the others or to study the idea of studies.Residents have become alarmed as to whether the Mayor and the Village council are committed to doing what he voted for on September 30th.
I hate the idea of high density housing,. I pushed against it at meetings and in letters, but you know the saying, it’s over when the fat lady sings.
The planning board voted for it and the three council members are drooling for it.
So I really think it is a lost cause.
The village will be transformed to a mini city and that’s that.
LIAR,LIAR pants on fire.
It’s a done deal. Too much money involved.
No, no, no you are wrong. It is not over yet, and many are fighting against it.
In other towns with parking garages the parking people are part of the redevelopment team. Parking and development go perfect together. I watched the end of the council meeting where the village manager was trying to explain why she refers to ithe garage as a “deck”. She sounded like an idiot. The other towns call the structures a garage and they are not worried that residents would confuse a public garage with other buildings that are called a garage. Deck does make it sound like a flat structure.
I looked at North Jersey towns with Garages – Englewood, Hackensack, North Bergen and Paterson. And then I wondered why we would want our town to become like those.
What nice Bergen County town has a public parking garage? Os this just a part of the redevelopement of the downtown? High density parking and public parking garages.
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Montclair, Summit, and Morristown also have garages. Those towns are reasonably nice, though maybe not as nice as Ridgewood?
Doesn’t Ramsey have a huge parking garage?
Summit is nice. the other are fine but more urban for sure. Westfield also has a garage, near the train station
Montclair and Ramsey are not great towns. Is Summit where they had a carjacking in a garage in which the owner was killed?
That was the Short Hills Mall garage
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There is a large garage at the Ramsey Rt. 17 NJ Transit station. That’s not in a “downtown” though.
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Good point about Westfield. I agree that Summit is probably the best analogue.
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That was Short Hills mall believe it or not! Victim was a friend of a friend, terrible story…
Short Hills was still a multi level garage. The Short Hills Mall is a very high end mall. Do we expect to have better clientele at our garage?
Morristown has a parking garage, high density housing, homelessness, drug use/sales near MLK boulevard and recently a dead body behind a restaurant.
Maybe we can take a look at their master plan.
nobody should be surprised… this is SOP for Democrat politicians… just look at POTUS – say anything, lie, lie, lie then do whatever he wants – legal or not.
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“This is SOP for politicians”. FTFY