March 6,2018
Bill McCandless
Ridgewood NJ, Have facts ever mattered more in public conversations? There are some hard questions for the Village Council after reading the parking facts in the many reports Ridgewood has paid for from respected experts. The facts are clear and not in dispute: we have an excess of CBD parking, poorly priced, and poorly promoted.
Why is the council pushing to add parking when there are as many, if not more, open CBD parking spots as the proposed garage would add?
Why is the council ignoring these facts and Gerrymandering the results to try and say otherwise?
Why add more $10,000,000 in more parking when the failed valet project proved parking is plentiful and easy to find?
Where is the concern for the village taxpayer as they get set to double all parking revenue, a million dollars annually in new parking fees?
Why would the village council say there is a shortage of parking when the facts conclusively prove otherwise?
Please email the council and ask if the parking facts matter.
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Read the sources for yourself, you already paid for them:
Walker 2015: https://mods.ridgewoodnj.net/pdf/manager/2015walkerFinal.pdf
Walker 2018: https://www.ridgewoodnj.net/images/Ridgewood/Projects/HudsonStParkingDeck/Hudson_Street_Parking_Garage_Prel._Fin._Analysis.pdf
Valet: https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/bergen/ridgewood/2018/02/11/ridgewood-loses-23-000-valet-parking-test-run/307789002/
