January 16,2018
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, councilmen Ramon Hache gave us an update of the Affordable Housing Litigation and how its effecting the Village of Ridgewood .
According to the councilmen , “This litigation continues from 2015 when the Village filed its Declaratory Judgment complaint in Superior Court seeking approval of its adopted housing plan and immunity from builders remedy law suits while the decision by the Court was pending. Presently, the Village enjoys immunity from suit until the end of January, 2018. It is conducting Court mandated settlement negotiations with Fair Share Housing Center managed by the Court appointed Special Master, Michael Bolan, PP. The effort is to resolve all issues with FSHC and reach an understanding with the Special Master and all interested parties to present an agreed upon Fair Share and Housing Plan to the Court sometime in the next few months of 2018. A significant part of the Housing plan designed to meet the constitutionally mandated requirement of providing affordable housing in the Village was approved in 2017 by the Planning Board for 4 developments in the Central Business district. These four developments are known as:
KS Broad -Ken Smith site;
The Enclave – South maple and East Ridgewood avenue intersection;
Chestnut Village – Chestnut Street, north of Franklin Avenue;
The Dayton – formerly Brogan Cadillac site on South Broad Street ”
Councilmen Hache states , “the Village council has pushed very hard to lower the density of each development and provide a component of “Special Needs” housing in at least one of the developments with the assistance of the Untied Way to assist persons and families in the area who are searching for residential living accommodations for special needs individuals. Settlement negotiations may provide additional Special Needs housing through an agreement with West Bergen Mental Healthcare and the Chestnut Village developers that will require approval of the master, FSHC and ultimately the Court.”
Details of the number of units of each development can be obtained by reading the Planning Board’s Resolutions of approval of each development.
On path to a sh!thole.
Fair Share Housing – How is it fare to force towns to accommodate people who can’t afford to live in a certain place?! This is so twisted. Socialists will sooner or later see how well this system works.
“can be obtained by reading the Planning Board’s Resolutions of approval of each development”
— really? where can we find those? None of the minutes are published for MONTHs.
Those four projects will yield, what, 37 units that will count toward our “affordable housing” quota. How does the judicial system propose we make up the remaining 963 units they plan to hit us with over the next decade?
11.58: For the remaining 963 units Murphy should mandate all his Rwg voters to add another floor to their homes and accommodate the lucky incomers. If they like socialism they should meaningfully contribute to it.
Were rich and stupid socialists… we’ll pay for it happily.
and soon just stupid
Can’t fix stupid.
why are there outside updates to a group of we don’t know who and/or if it is fact based or the view of the VC
A large number of affordable housing units will be built when Valley vacates and sells the property We can all keep telling ourselves that can’t/won’t happen but it is a very real outcome of valley leaving
Or Maybe the Village can buy the property when it becomes available and rent it, build ball fields, or save the birds
6.38. I went against Valley expansion but in the light of low income housing I wish Valley stayed. I wish someone made it clear back then what the danger could be if Valley left. Low income housing is much, much worse.
Valley is keeping its property at Linwood and Van Dien in Ridgewood. It will be converted to outpatient treatment only. Standard in-patient hospital services will be transferred to the new facility being built in Paramus. Why are we imagining that property be in put on the market?
I heard they were converting it to an inpatient drug/alcohol treatment facility and outpatient methadone clinic.
12.50 . Any info on what will happen with the Valley property in North Maple? I think at one point it would become a diagnostic center but this was before their move to Paramus?
As the hospital moves out the Valley board has no commitment to reinvest in the RW location
There are devolopers already making plans and talking with valley decision makers about the positive financials by selling and not investing in RW location
Think about it If you were Valley board why in the world would you consider staying in RW once your core business is out take the money and invest in a welcoming location Also developing the property will go a long way to village meeting it’s housing obligations that are not going away (Murphy)
The hospital would have been a great neighbor Let’s see how the new ones will be
No, no further info. But also no metaphysical certitude that Valley will not change its mind and decide in the near future to “dish the rock” to a new owner or owners. (The prior commenter was intimating that this is already the case.)
The problem is the left wing ultra liberal nj Supreme Court “mt laurel” case. My parents worked their asses off to save money and move to Bergen county and moved out of that shit hole city of Passaic . Now they are expected to live with some lazy do-nothing mooches who have the “right” to live here cheap.
Now that Murphy is governor he will legislate that anyone who works 40 hours at McDonald’s can live in any town they want even if they can’t afford it.
Same here. Worked hard to save $$$ and bring kids to live to a decent area, enjoy nature, enjoy quietness, be happy but no. Murphy and liberals have to ruin it. They wouldn’t give a sh.t about someone like me who works his butt off but they are very concerned about equality and rights for those who can”t afford. I will never understand their logic.
Thats how democrats buy future votes. The do not give a damn about any of us who worked and saved and moved to these towns on our own merit. After all they themselves live in gated communities and send their kids to special schools. This is exactly the same tactic that was used by the Soviet Ruling elites.
This also achieves a secondary affect of divide-and-conquer – keeping everyone preoccupied with these petty issues, while the ruling elites (such as Murphy and really all politicos) rob us dry.
Dont forget that Murphy is a Goldmanite (Goldman Sachs), and they are notorious to ruin everything in their path while enriching themselves and their buddies.
@1.24, on the same boat here. I am gutted that all my heroic efforts to buy a house in Ridgewood are heading to waste. Affordable housing is never affordable and in the end when landlords are incapable of filling their units they will ask the courts to change laws in favor of section 8 and that’s the end of the town and start of the eternal sh!thole living. Speechless as to how powerless current residents are and nobody raises a voice about us. The whole NJ but especially Bergen County is the FSH playground. They can play with our lives as they wish.
@11.47. I too was vocal against Valley but now I totally regret it. Valley would have been much better than what’s coming. I live near N Maple Valley property and I get chills down my spine when I picture what that area can become. Valley facilities would have been a miracle but now only God (FSH + Murphy) knows what it can turn into.
Depressing.