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Readers suspicious over BCIA involvement in Parking Garage

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Readers suspicious over BCIA involvement in Parking Garage 

Out of 70 Town in Bergen Count. They are going to come here and help us with our garage. You asked the county to fix a road or line stripe one of their roads and it falls on deaf ears but all of a sudden they are going to do this for us. Whats in it for them or is this Council going to sell us down the drain to further the agenda

If it made financial sense to build a parking garage…..it would have been built long ago.

BUT….if you can get your buddies at the BCIA (that independent authority that gets to borrow millions and millions and millions of dollars) to do a study, and to pay for it, and that you will have some influence in it’s results, then you do it.

The Republican County Exe. Donovan stated she would not issue bonds through the BCIA, now she wants to use tax dollars to do just that. Also Glen Rock School Board, refused to use the BCIA because of their high fees

I’ll believe it when I see it. The plain and simple truth is there’s no need for a parking garage in Ridgewood. It simply can’t be cost justified. If they build it, people will NOT come because it will be too expensive to park in.

Here’s a simple idea that costs no money. Free up parking spaces in the downtown district by having your employees park a couple of blocks away and walk to work.
There you go…..I’ll give you that advice for free.

I would think the powers that be would concentrate on getting the stores filled and operational before they build a garage to house the customers that aren’t there yet.

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Ridgewood, Bergen County moving on plans for parking garage

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Ridgewood, Bergen County moving on plans for parking garage

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2014    LAST UPDATED: WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 26, 2014, 10:33 PM
BY  CHRIS HARRIS
STAFF WRITER

RIDGEWOOD — Village and county officials have been meeting on a parking garage partnership since late 2013, and have agreed that a parking study should be conducted to determine just how big that garage should be.

The Bergen County Improvement Authority would commission the study, which would take a few months to complete, Mayor Paul Aronsohn said. The authority will meet in the next week or two to discuss the study.

The results of the study, which will determine the village’s overall parking needs, also will dictate how many spots the new garage facility will eventually have and what rates will be charged to customers.

“We’re all on the same page, and the county executive is also into the idea,” Aronsohn said, adding that the parking study will be “comprehensive,” with results reviewable sometime this summer.

The Bergen County Improvement Authority will cover most of the costs of the study, but the design of the garage will be mutually determined by both the village and the county, Aronsohn said.

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