photo by Boyd Loving
April 13,2017
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, Jersey Mikes serves great sandwiches and gives 5000 dollars for the Bell Tower at RHS, 12,000 dollars to Make a Wish Foundation and promises support for 4th of July festivities! Support Jersey Mikes!
Marion Brown is honored by the Council for all her wonderful photography over the years while working at The Ridgewood News, always friendly and unobtrusive as she tells our stories in pictures.
Rurik Halaby bloviates once again about Schedler.
Gwenn Hauck makes no sense as she urges the council not to rescind ordinance 15- 257. Our Mayor told her in no uncertain terms that her 3 minutes were up. Goodby Gwenn!
Water Ordinance passes. May need to be revisited and or tweaked depending on how successful it is in implementation and enforcement. As Boyd Loving said, “the devil is in the details.”
No more talk of a 90 foot baseball diamond at Schedler as ordinance 15-257 was rescinded and will remain so at least while this council holds court. The several acres of trees will remain for the people, the environment and wild life. The house will be preserved and will become an asset to the community representing our history and as an eventual home for beneficial services for our residents.
Sanity prevails with respect to Schedler, but insanity reigns regarding water restrictions. That will blow up in their faces big time.
Great recap. Did I hear Rurik going on once again about the Mayor’s conflict of interest? He was hard to hear on the TV, but it sounded like same old same old Halaby.
I was one of the big supporters of this VC BUT not anymore. Water restrictions have done it for me. The latest restriction list is total bullshit. It tells me these people have no clue and just try to naively jump the gun. The way these restrictions are escalating means that in a couple of years there won’t be any water allowance for irrigation, pools and just about anything else. We may end up having scheduled water delivery in our home taps, just like in 3rd world countries. And NO I don’t buy the bullshit about the limited capabilities of Ridgewood Water. INVEST and frigging fix the issue. You were elected to resolve issues by finding solutions not taxing people in order to make these problems go away. If you can’t then resign and let someone else do it.
What happened with regard to the Pommander parking ordinance?
And let me ask again, why are we going forward with adding 400 new families to town if we don’t have enough water? Are we going to prohibit showers and toilets in the downtown projects?
@ 4:47 because the previous planing board and council were dead set on passing the ordinances, period end of story. The planning board now has no recourse to deny site plans based on water, schools, traffic or anything similar. The use is approved and we are screwed.
1:48 Pomander was given back one side of the street with 2 hour parking.
Bogert & Cambridge was also cut back in times and not as much of the blocks.
It came out that you can’t hand water flowers or use a hose. This needs a better explanation and needs to be reviewed. What’s next…no showering? Boyd was spot on pointing out that there is no enforcement of saving water in Wyckoff and Midland Park while we are going through draconian measures.
You can take a personbal shower once a week, but only with a hand-held watering can.