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Readers say ” Valley Hospital’s Current Expansion is of no benefit to anyone in this town except for Valley Hospital”

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Readers say ” Valley Hospital’s Current Expansion is of no benefit to anyone in this town except for Valley Hospital”

Let’s all hope it’s not judge , jury, and town executioner? If the council denies Valley, which they should. I don’t think Valley will sue and have it go to a judge? They will compromise and resubmit until they get closer to what they want.

A lot of articles state that the group of individuals who oppose Valley only live around Valley and are more impacted by this expansion. I so disagree with this view. All of Ridgewood should be against this current expansion. Why? Well here’s just a few good reasons: Valley, pays no taxes, not even PILOT. All Ridgewood Taxpayers will be paying for the additional strains on our services (Police and Fire). 7 to 14 years of construction will cause major traffic problems from beginning to end ( no way around this and will affect all of us). You won’t be able to get to those homes on the Westside!

Valley demonstrated that it had no interest in compromise when they submitted a “revised” plan that was a near twin of the original rejected one. It was so close that the PB should have refused to consider it, like a teacher with a “revised” essay that’s almost identical to the first one.

PB keeps hiding behind “laws” and “rules” but where is the responsibility to represent the people?

Have 7 figures already been spent in fees to attorneys and “experts” to keep discussing the same thing?

How many PB members do not know how they will vote? How many have known for 7 years?

Think about this statement: ” Valley Hospital’s Current Expansion is of no benefit to anyone in this town except for Valley Hospital”

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Planning board cannot make major changes to Valley Hospital expansion plan, board’s attorney says

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Planning board cannot make major changes to Valley Hospital expansion plan, board’s attorney says

TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 2014    LAST UPDATED: TUESDAY MARCH 11, 2014, 11:06 PM
BY  BARBARA WILLIAMS
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD

RIDGEWOOD — The Planning Board cannot substantially change The Valley Hospital’s plan to nearly double in size — even if it wanted to after a year of expert testimony and procedural discussions, according to the board attorney’s interpretation of law.

Although the board can make small alterations in language or items that do not affect the project’s scale, it can either approve or reject the plan but it cannot make major changes to the master plan amendment submitted by Valley, said Gail Price, the board attorney.

“The board can’t make any changes that could be considered arbitrary, capricious or unreasonable,” Price said, based on a pending court case involving the hospital and a group of residents opposed to the project. But she added that what constitutes a “substantial change is a gray area.”

“It’s not black and white,” Price said.

Even those opposed to the plan have said they support Valley’s effort to expand and renovate. They are just vehemently against the proposed size of the project, which will include a 94-foot-tall building and structures that will cover 43 percent of the 15-acre site, compared with the current 16 percent. Some have said they would be happy with a 20 percent to 25 percent expansion.

– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/news/Ridgewood_planners_attorney_says_major_changes_by_board_not_allowed_in_Valley_Hospital_expansion_plan.html#sthash.EfgxQD5I.dpuf

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Ridgewood planning board told it can’t make changes to Valley Hospital expansion plan

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Ridgewood planning board told it can’t make changes to Valley Hospital expansion plan

TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 2014    LAST UPDATED: TUESDAY MARCH 11, 2014, 11:09 AM
BY  BARBARA WILLIAMS
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD

RIDGEWOOD – For a year, residents opposed to The Valley Hospital’s plan to nearly double in size have been attending hearings, sitting through hours of testimony and questioning experts in their effort to get the village Planning Board to scale back the project. On Monday night, they learned the board will not amend the proposal.

Gail Price, the board attorney, told residents at yet another hearing that the board could accept or reject the master amendment that would allow the hospital to expand, but it couldn’t make any changes. Price said the board could reject the application and then write an entirely new amendment and start the process over.

“To say I’m mad is an understatement,” said Pete McKenna, president of a group opposed to the project, Concerned Residents of Ridgewood. “I just wasted another year of my life here only to find out the board doesn’t have the latitude to make any changes.”

Valley is seeking an amendment to the village master plan that will allow them to construct a building that will rise to 94 feet high, if rooftop mechanicals are included, in the middle of a residential neighborhood. The project also calls for construction closer to the neighboring middle school.

– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/ridgewood/Ridgewood_planning_board_told_it_cant_make_changes_to_Valley_Hospital_expansion_plan.html#sthash.2o15Yagg.dpuf

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Planning Board Amended Meeting Schedule – March 10, 18, 31

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Planning Board Amended Meeting Schedule – March 10, 18, 31

PLANNING BOARD

AMENDMENT TO MEETING SCHEDULE

Special Public Meetings: March 10, March 18, March 31

In accordance with the provisions of the “Open Public Meetings Act,” please be advised that the Planning Board has scheduled special public meetings for:

• Monday, March 10, 2014 at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium at the Benjamin Franklin Middle School, 335 North Van Dien Ave., Ridgewood, NJ, at which time the Board will continue the public hearing on the proposed H-Hospital Zone amendment to the Master Plan.

• Tuesday, March 18, 2014, at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium at the Benjamin Franklin Middle School, 335 North Van Dien Ave., Ridgewood, NJ, at which time the Board will continue the public hearing on the proposed H-Hospital Zone amendment to the Master Plan and have discussion regarding the North Walnut Street Redevelopment Plan.

• Monday, March 31, 2014 at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium at the Benjamin Franklin Middle School, 335 North Van Dien Ave., Ridgewood, NJ, at which time the Board will continue the public hearing on the proposed H-Hospital Zone amendment to the Master Plan.

The Board may take official action during these Work and Public Meetings.

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Special Public Planning Board Meeting – March 4, 2014

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Special Public Planning Board Meeting – March 4, 2014

PLANNING BOARD

AMENDMENT TO MEETING SCHEDULE

Special Public Meeting: Tuesday, March 4, 2014

In accordance with the provisions of the “Open Public Meetings Act,” please be advised that the Planning Board has scheduled a special public meeting and work session for TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 2014, in the RIDGEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT CENTER, 627 E. RIDGEWOOD AVENUE, RIDGEWOOD, NJ beginning at 7:30 p.m.

The Board may take official action during this Special Public Meeting. The agenda for the meeting includes the following:

1. Continued public hearing concerning a proposed amendment to the Land Use Plan Element of the Master Plan, which amendment would recommend creation of new zone districts and changes in zone district boundaries within the Central Business District and surrounding area including AH-2, B-3-R, C-R and C Zone Districts.

2. Other Planning Board business per the agenda.

The proposed master plan amendment and related exhibits are at the office of the Secretary of the Ridgewood Planning Board on the third floor of Village Hall, 131 North Maple Avenue, Ridgewood, New Jersey and are available for public inspection Monday-Friday between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. The amendment and exhibits are also posted as a courtesy on the Village’s website at www.ridgewoodnj.net

All meetings of the Ridgewood Planning Board (i.e., official public meetings, work session meetings, pre-meeting assemblies and special meetings) are public meetings which are always open to members of the general public.

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“Save Our Village” lawn signs popping up in Village

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“Save Our Village” lawn signs popping up in Village
March 2,2014
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Ridgewood NJ, “Save Our Village” signs are now popping up in the Village.  Most have been spotted in the Ridge Elementary School area, presumably because that school’s receiving area encompasses the Central Business District, where the high density housing is proposed to be located.
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Readers ask One question for Valley and its supporters: How is the Valley expansion good for the tax payers of Ridgewood?

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file photo Councilwoman Gwenn Hauck as Vice President of the Valley Auxiliary

Readers ask One question for Valley and its supporters: How is the Valley expansion good for the tax payers of Ridgewood?

So who works for who here? Valley pays no taxes, benefits from all of Ridgewood’s municipal services and taxes our infrastructure with patients and employees coming in from surrounding towns. Yet THEY drive the agenda at hearings about THEIR expansion that will use even more municipal services and tax our infrastructure even further. For still no taxes.

While Valley is Ridgewood’s largest employer, less than 10% of its employees live in town. Similarly less than 10% of Valley’s patients are Ridgewood residents. Valley’s plan is clearly to draw from surrounding towns for both employees and patients which is great for surrounding towns but terrible for Ridgewood. We get a 7 year construction project followed by traffic, over taxed infrastructure and a lower quality of life.

Valley does, on the other hand throw a great party so its socialite supporters can see their picture in the Ridgewood News and 201 Magazine.

One question for Valley and its supporters: How is the Valley expansion good for the tax payers of Ridgewood? Maybe Mrs. Hauck can tweet the answer…

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Valley Hospital buying up string of properties near its Ridgewood site

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Valley Hospital buying up string of properties near its Ridgewood site
Friday, February 14, 2014    Last updated: Saturday February 15, 2014, 12:40 AM
BY  LINDA MOSS AND BARBARA WILLIAMS
STAFF WRITERS
The Record

As The Valley Hospital has struggled for years to expand its campus in Ridgewood, it has been quietly buying real estate in Bergen County, assembling a portfolio that includes a string of properties on North Maple Avenue in Ridgewood and the building that houses the New Jersey Children’s Museum in Paramus.

Over the past two years, the hospital, in some cases through holding companies, has spent at least $54 million to acquire roughly a half-dozen sites in the village and neighboring Paramus as potential future locations for doctors’ offices, along with outpatient and other services that would be moved from its main campus. Some of these newly acquired properties are already operating as off-site hospital facilities.

But the hospital’s plans for some of its other new properties remain unclear, and Valley’s real estate shopping doesn’t appear to be over. Recently, it has been in talks to purchase buildings that the global parcel deliverer UPS will be vacating on Winters Avenue in Paramus, as reported by The Record. If that deal closes, it would add another property to a medical-services cluster that the hospital has been creating in Paramus, near the Fashion Center mall.

– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/news/valley_paramus_ford_ridgewood_hospital_ups_real_estate.html#sthash.ETbswYzJ.dpuf

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The Valley Hospital Announces Two New Trustees

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The Valley Hospital Announces Two New Trustees

Ridgewood NJ, The Valley Hospital is pleased to announce the election of Ann Limberg, of Mahwah, and Debra Taylor, of Franklin Lakes, to its Board of Trustees.

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Ms. Limberg is managing director and Northeast division executive for U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management. In this role, Limberg oversees the wealth management business for the Northeast division, serving high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth individuals, families and non-profit institutions.

Previously, Limberg served as New Jersey state president for Bank of America. She joined Bank of America in April 2004. Previously, Limberg held senior leadership positions in retail banking and private banking at NatWest and Citibank. Limberg has been recognized by NJBIZ as one of the 50 Most Powerful Nonprofit Board Members in New Jersey, the Executive Women of New Jersey’s Salute to the Policy Makers, and NJBIZ’s New Jersey’s Best 50 Women in Business and Top 25 Women of Influence.

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Ms. Taylor is the principal of Taylor Financial Group, LLC, a full service wealth management firm located in Franklin Lakes, NJ. She focuses exclusively on wealth management for high-net-worth individuals, corporations and servicing the needs of tax exempt organizations. Debra takes a holistic approach to these areas, incorporating her legal expertise and tax background to provide integrated solutions to clients.

Debra graduated from Drew University in three years with a B.A. in Political Science, magna cum laude. She received several honors while there, most notably, election to Phi Beta Kappa. Three years later, Debra graduated from Cornell Law School, where she was elected Book Review Editor of the Cornell Law Review and served as a teaching assistant. While at Cornell, Debra also served as Symposium Editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy and received American Jurisprudence Awards for excellence in corporate law and trial advocacy. After graduation, Debra served as a law clerk to The Honorable John F. Gerry, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.

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Ridgewood News editorial: Hitting the restart button

>Ridgewood News editorial: Hitting the restart button
Thursday, December 1, 2011
The Ridgewood News

The scene at Tuesday night’s Village Council meeting to formalize the governing body’s opposition to The Valley Hospital’s “Renewal” plan was far from the raucous display at last year’s Planning Board meeting, when an amendment to the Master Plan was approved.

https://www.northjersey.com/news/opinions/134886393_Hitting_the_restart_button.html