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Graydon Can Meet ADA Compliance with the Mobi Chair
Graydon should comply with ADA requirements like Crestwood Lake in Allendale has: They should purchase Mobi Chairs that allow handicapped individuals to enter the water and either get out and swim or remain in chair and float.
In this way Graydon retains its swimming room in the deep end without dimishing the already small space with a huge ramp that goes out 40 feet. Also the concrete entrance to ramp will replace the sand on the shore. which to many Graydon users, including myself, is unacceptable. We want a natural environment and a natural sand bottom pool.
The concrete patio is already an unnecessary eyesore and a diminishing of Graydon’s natural beauty and charm. Hey, I am used to bringing my lunch before patio was built. Much healthier. Mobi chairs are the way to go.
I suspect mobi chairs makes way too much sense for Ridgewood to implement probably because it does not advance the correct agenda or line the correct pockets.
Never knew we had so many pool designers in town so, why can’t we have one that can bring back those lost 4,500 members?
for the same reason no other pool in Bergen county has maintained membership
in the 50s-70s hardly anybody had private pools, beach houses, etc.
you look around ridgewood in late july – late august and it’s a ghost town.
there is no way they “4500 members” are coming back even if we spent $10m on a pool.
most community pools run at deficits due to this (and are subsidized by the towns much like any other town amenity such as fields, libraries, etc.)
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Believe it or not, every house in town does not have central air conditioning, not to mention a private pool. Graydon has always been a delightful, convenient hot-weather respite at reasonable fees for those in town who do not own second or third homes and can’t spend half the summer at resorts–as well as those who do have vacation homes but would like a cool dip when they can’t go there. It looks great, too–a refreshing oasis in the center of town.
Many Village residents enjoy and demand amenities, such as increasingly expensive sports fields and turf remediation, that are of no interest to others, but who nevertheless pay for them through property taxes. Fairness is an issue. Nevertheless, if the Village marketed Graydon in any way beyond Parks & Rec fliers, more people would join. There isn’t even an obvious place on the Village website to learn details about the place and join.
The pool is for all residents. The expensive sports fields (that run at a deficit?) are for kids in sports programs.
A retired resident with no children in the Ridgewood schools should be able to enjoy this park. They pay a lot of taxes and some perks should be for them.
The latest ramp drawing, never posted on the Village website, suggests a length of over 90 feet, with more than half of that in the water, according to the scale provided (1 inch = 10 feet). A previously unseen set of steps down from the patio, dangerously close to the ice cream window and patio, becomes a new “attractive nuisance” for little kids. And instead of hugging the patio wall, as previously indicated, the ramp sticks out at an angle, creating a dead space between it and the wall, co-opting even more swimming area and prime for trapping stagnant water, floating detritus, lost balls, and confused ducks.
This concrete ramp is nothing more than an idiots folly Mr. Mayor, get rid of it.
why by mobi chairs when we can spend (waste) 50k-75?
aronsohn on his high horse again. “everybody deserves this….” blah blah blah.
spending OPM.
We will waste money on a needless ramp for the same reason we will now spend “retail” for phone system repairs and maintenance. Sheer stupidity.
Mobi mats and mob chairs don’t meet federals rules for a pool sloped entry.
The concrete ramp does. Fair Lawn’s sand bottom pool has one.
Come up with alternative that meets the rules. So far I haven’t heard any.
So Crestwood Lake in Allendale is non-compliant because they don’t have sloped entry and use mobi chairs and mobi mats instead?
Yes.