Dear Village Officials, I understand ” the train has left the station ” on the Garage at the Hudson Street site but I would like to state a brief case as to why this is not the best scenario for Ridgewood at the present time.
We have a contaminated site at the Town Garage site and the village owned properties abutting it. Hydrolic and diesel fuel from old underground tanks is seeping into the ground and could be affecting our ground water in the area. I know that it is being monitored and that the DEP targeted this area for remediation at least 10 years ago. In 2002, a village conducted study saw the Town Garage site as a better fit for a municipal garage than Hudson Street for various reasons.
I believe the village tried to gain the property via eminent domain in 2009 but that failed. I understand that you have asked our village attorney to look into the Abandoned Property ordinance. The owners of that site are up to date on taxes but the property continues to be a threat to the environment. I believe that this property should be acquired by the village, the site cleaned up and responsible development of the property including a garage should take place.
You are voting on an ordinance this evening to bond 12.3 million dollars through the BCIA. Our first priority should be the acquisition of the Town Garage site and the remediation of that property as soon as possible. If a garage is built there, it would be used by employees, diners sand shoppers as well as commuters as it is more centrally located. The Hudson Street area could be repaved and reconfigured to maximize parking spaces and also for minimal costs made more aesthetically pleasing. I want what is best for the village and right now it is to clean up the toxic site in our downtown area.
Sincerely,
Linda Mc Namara
Don’t worry they will get to that next for another 12 million or more. They have to take care of Mr.Hillman
Great idea but our Council majority has long since made up their minds that they want their names on a enormous parking facility on Hudson St. They will continue to refuse to listen to the people the claim to represent or to financial reason. Anyone who disagrees with them will be publicly humiliated.
Man, Linda’s wearing out her keyboard.
Yes, let’s have 2 garages.
A gyro in every garage…!
Towns like an out of control flywheel gushing our cash and future liabilities and future taxes to their bloated patrons….let’s not let facts interrupt the favors orgy..let it be a monstrous monument to mismanagement..where is Mount St. Carmel in all this..?
Maybe Ben & Jerry’s can launch a new flavor: “Town Garage Toxic Fudge”
Town Garage site and the adjacent municipal parking lot is a far superior location for a parking structure. Hudson & Broad location is nonsense. It’s all about Paul and his BC connections for political gain.
I hope their names ARE on it so that they can be ridiculed and reviled unto eternity.