>“I think we get hung up on the words ‘fast food,'” said Mayor Keith Killion.
Ridgewood Planning Board continues debate on village fast food ordinance
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2011
BY JOSEPH CRAMER
STAFF WRITER
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
The Ridgewood Planning Board went back for seconds on the issue of amending the village’s fast food ordinance at Tuesday’s public meeting.
Planners addressed the importance of moving beyond the negative stigma the ordinance’s name carries.
“I think we get hung up on the words ‘fast food,'” said Mayor Keith Killion.
The idea of amending the existing fast food ordinance, which currently prohibits fast food entirely in the downtown area’s B-1 zone and permits it with conditions in the B-2 zone, was revived at a board meeting in August by Village Planner Blais Brancheau with the intent that applicants currently prohibited under existing ordinance could potentially fill some of the vacant storefronts in Ridgewood’s Central Business District (CBD).