February 6,2018
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, on October 26,2012 at the time Mayor Paul Aronsohn and Deputy Mayor Albert Pucciarelli created what they called , “A Vision for Downtown” ( https://www.paularonsohn.com/news_articles/a-vision-for-downtown ) in which they detailed :
1)Ridgewood needs high-end apartments
2)Ridgewood needs a performing arts center
3)Ridgewood needs parking decks/garages
4)Ridgewood needs to be more business-friendly
Many view this “Vision” as a vision to destroy the Village of Ridgewood and turn into just another New Jersey overbuilt dumpy town .So now for ever more the Current Village Council and Village residents are stuck with the mess they created .
Unfortunately the high density housing was approved with the idea that a garage would pick up the slack with parking and allow the developers to offer less parking spaces . The fact that the developments will create a need for more schools, more water, more parking and generate more congestion in an overly congested central business district is left for the Ridgewood taxpayer to pick up the tab.
One wonders if some those who suggested there was enough water and that parking and congestion were not issues could and should be prosecuted ?
What they left out of the “needs” list was “like a hole in the head!”
These people preceded Trump in the development of deliberate “fake news”.
“Fake News” in the modern sense was invented by Dan Rather long before Trump was president