photo by ArtChick
July 13,2016
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, looks like Ridgewood residents who questioned the over development of the central business district proved right all along. A state appeals panel overturned a court order that could have added thousands of units to developers’ plans.
Suburban towns are not required to address the so-called “backlog” of unmet housing needs that supposedly accumulated from 1999-2015. This is a very good development for Ridgewood. The developers have much less leverage than they thought they did. Now we have to press the point that we are fully built-out, have been for decades, and should not be obliged by any court to “build up”, city-style, to accommodate large numbers of new residents.
What a shame for Saraceno, Simoncini, Pucciarelli and all the others that stood to gain big time and pushed so hard to get all that housing into the CBD. Kudos to,the citizens who delayed all the development and stood up to Aronsohn and his horrible reign of terror, and Gwenn with her sparkly eyed talk about COAH.
The concept of the state, counties or municipalities having an “affordable housing” obligation pursuant to the New Jersey constitution is preposterous on its face. The New Jersey judiciary has been on an illegal power trip, fueled by like-minded progressive lawyers, for decades now. At some point they need to sober up and cut it out. We’ve been chasing our tails long enough