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Ridgewood to encourage downtown employees to park in Ken Smith lot

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Ridgewood to encourage downtown employees to park in Ken Smith lot

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014    LAST UPDATED: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2014, 4:22 PM
BY LAURA HERZOG
STAFF WRITER
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS

Space is being made in Ridgewood’s village code for more parking spaces.

The village has created a new ordinance as a first step to encourage Central Business District (CBD) employee parking in the Franklin Avenue Ken Smith lot, to temporarily free up public parking spaces.

As the village enters a public-private partnership with the new lot owners, KS Broad Street LLC, to allow CBD employees to use the lot, which the village would police and manage, the council on Wednesday introduced an ordinance that establishes requirements for the permitting of CBD employee vehicles in that lot.

“The negotiations still continue. We’re very close,” Village Manager Roberta Sonenfeld said.

“I want to emphasize that this is a short-term solution,” she added. “The contract that’s been drafted now by [the village attorney] will be a six-month contract. We think it will go longer because I think the current owner still has to go in front of the Planning Board with his plans for the property, but obviously once he decides what to do with the property, it becomes unavailable to us.”

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