
May 6,2018
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, This weeks (May 5th/6th, 2018) Our Lady of Mt. Carmel bulletin message from Fr. Ron :
“I was hoping I would not have to do this but because of a recent scurrilous mailer, which identified the parish (by name, if you went to the website) as the source of a “$25,000 prize—that’s right, $25,000! – from an organization at the center of the parking garage debate and a seemingly illegal meeting held—without any public notice or follow up minutes—to discuss the parking garage issue,” (factually incorrect). I am constrained to re-iterate the parish position, on the garage only, and I quote directly from my column in the bulletin of June 12, 2016: “For clarity again, and simply stated, relative to the parking deck, the parish opposes any plan that eliminates on-street parking on the church side of Hudson Street. The parish opposes the re-direction of Hudson and Passaic Streets. The parish is neutral on the aesthetics of the deck, its size, its proportionality to surrounding buildings and the streetscape it creates. This is a decision that should be made by the individual resident of Ridgewood.” I think that statement should be clear enough.”