August 4,2017
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, it appears the council has heard the cries about the disrepair of the “Town Garage” property .
Mayor Susan Knudsen announced at the Village Council meeting on Wednesday night that she is in favor of the Village buying the town garage .
Deputy Mayor Mike Sedon and Councilmen Ramon Hache also spoke strongly in favor of the Village buying the garage and pointed out the Village could make up the lost tax revenue in 5 months with parking at the town garage .While Councilmen Voigt was concerned about remediation and thought the first priority to build a garage on Hudson Street .
The mayor continued to articulate a long term parking strategy for the Village of Ridgewood .Councilwomen Walsh felt strongly the Village should compel the current property owner to clean up the site . The village engineer gave an over view of the contamination , his estimate for the clean up was not forth coming ,however he stated the Village had $900,000 in its capital fund allocated for clean up.
