the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, The Mayor and his cronies are playing fast and loose with the truth and the rank and file doing their bidding may not understand the real plot. Stooping so low as to grab out dated of context quotes to imply that the 5 members of the incoming Council endorse a YES vote is essentially manufacturing a lie but trying to wipe off your fingerprints of the tools of deceit. The incoming Council DOES NOT endorse a Yes vote and if you doubt me, just ask them, they are all available on email. They are trying to stay on the high road, which the Village Manager couldn’t find with a map, but they are livid at the bald attempt to attach their names to Paul and Roberta’s desperate attempt to deceive.
They don’t want or need any “help” from the outgoing Council who are leaving their post with as little grace and professionalism as you would expect from observing the last 4 years
The Walker study (attached ) makes clear that of the 250 incremental spots created the vast, vast majority (191 of 250 or 76 %) of the spots created will be monthly spots. The 126 hourly spots is less than 50 more than what exists in lot now (76 spots ) when you consider the destruction of on-street parking Garagzilla requires.
So wait …We spend $ 11.5 MM to get essentially less than 2 levels of shopping/dining parking and 3+ levels of monthly parking to warehouse extra cars for the high density residents and serve out of town commuters? That makes sense how?????
Who benefits from 50 subsidized hourly spots being created in a $ 11.5 MM boondoggle? Local Landlords looking to raise rents on small business tenants.
Who benefits from developers, out of town commuters and local landlords being happy? Politicians who need money and allies to run for office.
The postcards that they sent out this week show them to be brazen liars.
Who are the leaders of Progress Ridgewood? I would like to contact them.
A previous mailing from progress Ridgewood listed the home address of rurik halaby and the business phone number of John saraceno.
What mailer postcards? Guess lucky not to be on their mailer list! Voting NO AGAIN! Wasn’t fooled with their lies the first time either.
It is a desperate attempt to confuse the voters right before the election.
It worked in the first garage vote. They are lying again.
Progress Ridgewood are LIARS.
Would Rubrick or Sarenceno care to respond? They have failed to get their council members elected, they failed to stop the perition vote. The mayor and Roberta are being sued.
Is there anything left for them to fail at? I am including in the failure club the restauranteurs, developers and lackeys (Tim, Sarah, Don and Rubrick) for the council. Epic Fail.