BY STEVE JANOSKI
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD
RIDGEWOOD — The public’s overwhelming rejection Tuesday of a bond ordinance that would have financed a municipal parking garage on Hudson Street has many residents wondering what the next proposed solution will be to the village’s perpetual parking woes.
The question is difficult to answer for several reasons, including uncertainties.
https://www.northjersey.com/community-news/town-government/path-after-bond-defeat-unclear-1.1622848
As expected, Mr. Aronsohn has blamed his failure on “misinformation” and the parishioners of a local church. No admission on his part that he is totally out of touch with reality. What a scumbag.
So at any given moment in time there are between 1300 and 2000 cars cruising around Ridgewood looking for a parking spot? Or, would there be 1300 to 2000 more vehicles in town daily if we had sufficient parking? Spell it out.
Janoski forgot to mention that landlords have said that they could DOUBLE rents if a GARAGE were built. IT’S ALL ABOUT MONEY -BIG MONEY!
Was Ridgewood’s bond counsel heard to say that if the Ridgexit vote succeeded we would be placed in the ‘back of the queue’ when the time came to devise an alternative bonding arrangement? If so that comment may have made the difference and caused the ‘Leave’ contingent to seize the majority on election day. (/sarc off)
Ridgewood residents refuse to be bullied.
Keep blaming the Catholic Church and watch your pitifully minor political career get even smaller Paulie.
Like the true loser that Aronsohn is, he is kicking and screaming until the last. I hope Fr. Ron has something to say to Albert’s Catholic wife about this…………..
Anne is right on target – Aronsohn is his own worst enemy by being such a sore loser. Blaming a religious organization for his loss? Come on now.
First, there is not a parking problem anywhere near the magnitude described by the Mayor and the garage’s half dozen other supporters. There is a periodic parking inconvenience on weekends and a slight deficit of commuter parking for some Ridgewood residents that need to get to New York City after 7:00 am. The need has never been believably shown for a garage the size of the one proposed by the outgoing Council majority and their developer partners. Unless of course you want to build huge apartment buildings right? Hmmm, maybe this wasn’t about parking after all.
Second, ignoring the Mt. Carmel community in their rush to get the garage built was either a massive oversight or gross miscalculation by the Mayor and his outgoing running mates. You think after the beating their platform took on May 10 that there may have been an olive branch or two extended afterward but no. Anyone, including the Church, that didn’t see things their way was branded as ignorant, obstructionist and all of the other condescending epithets that have been hurled at us for the past 4 years.
Sour grapes much? Bu-Bye
Misinformation was on the oart of Progress Ridgewood.
Ahronson’s buddies tried to confuse the voters. They knew that residents would not vote for anything with Ahronson, Rubrick or Sarenceno’s names on it. So they created a mailing that looked like it was from the winners, Knudson and Sedon.
Liars!
Good ridance..let them wallow in a huge loss ..let that be their legacy of what you don’t want to be remembered for…go wreck some other town or enterprise..l
They just raised the gasoline tax so you don’t have money to buy gas to drive downtown anyway.
Bob Carroll – please add add “sc mbag” to the list of insults generated on this blog (see post above at 11:26am).
As a result of the recent admission by Mayor Aronsohn that taxpayer funds were spent to promote YES votes on June 21, I’m concerned as to whether any taxpayer funds were disbursed in connection with the non binding referendum in November. Who paid for all of those “Vote Yes for Parking” lawn signs, and did Mr. Aronsohn pay for the his robo call about the referendum as he said he did. or did taxpayers foot the bill.
Time for an OPRA.