Ho-Ho-Kus NJ, the Ho-Ho-Kus Planning Board will discuss the Ho-Ho-Kus Crossings high density development project on North Maple Avenue . While the project will reside in Ho-Ho-Kus the greatest impact will be felt in Ridgewood . The project will create a profound transformation of the neighborhood which will affect the whole North Maple Avenue corridor.
2022 Planning Board Meeting Agendas
Planning Board Special Meeting Notice
February 28, 2022 – 7:00pm
Planning Board Special Meeting Agenda
February 28, 2022 – 7:00pm
Planning Board Agenda
February 17, 2022 – 7:30pm
Follow the money…
I think one of the main important reasons here are the crossings for pedestrians. It’s going to get interesting.
This will not end well for Ridgewood, particularly for those living on Barnett Place. Barnett will become a major through street for those cars coming to the Crossings. As it is today, Barnett’s traffic is mostly confined to those who live on the street, which has, incidentally, no sidewalks. Traffic? One of the brilliant minds promoting this monstrosity suggested a traffic light on Maple and First Street; a few hundred feet from the traffic light governing the busy intersection at Maple and the Franklin Turnpike. Can anyone imagine how the anticipated volume of traffic added to this already busy section of town will affect motorists’ length of stay on the road? Sure, the developers will present a bogus, underestimated number of new cars added to the area but they doubtless will be using one car per residence; has anyone seen only one car parked in the driveways of homes within HHK and Ridgewood? One hopes that the Planning Board will stop this madness and demand a development plan that is in keeping with the area’s capacity to deal with it. The variance for building next to the HHK Brook within the flood plain is another really, really bad idea. By paving over the flood plain, the number of floods that now terrorize the residents downstream will be exacerbated. Ridgewood really needs to take a hard, critical look at the consequences of this development as planned, as will with the Valley Ford, busted bank properties nearby. At the very least, RW will have to consider making Barnett a one-way street. If it does not, sympathies are extended to homeowners there, many of whom have built new homes or extensively renovated existing structures recently. This entire enterprise is a nightmare, and only the so-called planning boards of RW and HHK can make it go away.
@ Anonymous above: Excellent points. Please know that Barnet already is one way but once the sh!.t hits the fan post development it can be certain that Barnett will need to convert 2 ways to alleviate N Maple gridlocks. The traffic study rep during the last board meeting maintained that there is no noticeable change of traffic pattern with the addition of the cars, obviously a study paid for by the developer from 3 years ago. Ironically the rep had no idea that Brookside has become one traffic recently which has resulted to increased Maple traffic. Isn’t there enough traffic on Franklin? How about the crazy RT 17 less than a mile away? It is disheartening that HHK has offered this developer every variance they asked for, it is like begging them to build this monster. Everybody is in the pocket of developers from NJ DEP to local politicians. The suburbs are going to hell. It is appalling that residents do not protest against such greed that’s destroying their living areas.
Make it a dead end.
“Make it a dead end.”
That’s what they’re doing to our towns.
Wait for it…
Ridgewood Library will need more money since all these HoHoKus poverty row kids will be using our library since HoHoKus library is a joke (my living room is bigger)
Just a hunch, but all the federal covid dollars sent to the suburbs came with strings attached, and now we are witnessing the tangled web.
We hear daily about planes flown in secret in the tri state area in the middle of the night with illegals. They will need to live somewhere, why not HHK and RW. This is what is becoming of us. When they send illegals in the middle of the night intoScarsdale you know what awaits this area too. Earlier today there were 700 of them awaiting to be accommodated around Bergen County. Meanwhile continue napping and hide head in the sand thinking that it is just some fake news.
The village of Ridgewood and the surrounding towns are a big dead end! Just look at your property tax increases the last few years I bet they were more than 2.5%!
@Anonymous above — where is Ho-Ho-Kus “poverty row”? Serious question. I thought HHK was everyone’s “grail town” ? (and certainly more desirable than Ridgewood with lower taxes, more quietude, etc.)