Tag: Urbanization

Ridgewood Planning Board sends changes to redevelopment plan to council

MAY 9, 2014    LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2014, 12:31 AM
BY LAURA HERZOG
STAFF WRITER

A Planning Board discussion elicited further comments on pending amendments to the redevelopment plan for the village-owned section at the corner of North Walnut Street and Franklin Avenue.

The comments will be sent to the Ridgewood Council for review, according to Village Planner Blais Brancheau.

“We’re just going to send them a letter,” Brancheau said. “If the council reads the comments and says, ‘Let’s change it,’ they could.”

The council has already discussed amendments to a previous redevelopment plan, drafted by Brancheau with the help of the Planning Board. A second reading is expected at a council meeting on May 14.

The Planning Board approved its amended plan for council introduction in March. Those amendments include some added allowable uses, including an assisted-living facility, which could be incorporated into a parking garage structure. Allowing this use in the plan would not guarantee that an assisted-living facility would be built at that location. It would, however, allow the village to consider any assisted-living developers’ proposals that might come in, should the village adopt the amendments and draft a request for proposal (RFP).

Assisted living has been proposed by several developers for that location, ever since a presentation on a facility, with ground floor retail, was made last June to the council by Kensington Senior Development. The firm also offered to build a parking garage nearby.

The original redevelopment plan was created in 2007, following a village resolution labeling the area “in need of redevelopment.” The plan includes several objectives for the redevelopment. Primarily, the village is seeking to establish a parking garage, and secondarily, it is looking to encourage more retail in that location (which may be incorporated into the garage structure at street level).

An RFP was drafted for that plan, but the council rejected every consequent proposal, prompting the need for a reinvigorated look at the plan.

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Planning Board Special Public Meetings – May 6

PLANNING BOARD

AMENDMENT TO MEETING SCHEDULE

Special Public Meetings: Tuesday, May 6, 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 for Tuesday, May 6, 2014 at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium at the Benjamin Franklin Middle School, 335 North Van Dien Ave., Ridgewood, NJ.

The Board may take official action during this Work and Public Meeting at which time the Board will:

• Continue the public hearing on the proposed H-Hospital Zone amendment to the Master Plan.

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

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.

Amendments to the redevelopment plan for the North Walnut Street Redevelopment Area.

PLANNING BOARD PUBLIC MEETING NOTICE/AGENDA

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Village Hall Court Room – 7:00 P.M.

 (all timeframes and the order of agenda items below are approximate and subject to change)


1.      7:00 p.m.- Call to Order, Statement of Compliance, Flag Salute, Roll Call  – In accordance with the provisions of Section 10:4-8d of the Open Public Meetings Act, the date, location, and time of the commencement of this meeting is reflected in a meeting notice, a copy of which schedule has been filed with the Village Manager and the Village Clerk, The Ridgewood News and The Record newspapers, and posted on the bulletin board in the entry lobby of the Village municipal offices at 131 North Maple Avenue, and on the Village website, all  in accordance with the provisions of the Open Public Meetings Act.

Roll call: Aronsohn, Bigos, Pucciarelli, Nalbantian, Hurley, Reilly, Joel, Dockray, Peters

2.      7:05 p.m. – 7:15 p.m. – Public Comments on Topics not Pending Before the Board


3.      7:15 p.m. – 7:20 p.m. – Correspondence Received by the Board


4.      7:20 p.m. – 9:15 p.m. – Mr. & Mrs. George Halwagy, 313 West Glen Ave., Block 1607, Lot 3 – Minor Subdivision application (Underlying Remand Proceeding) – Continued from April 15, 2014


5.      9:15 p.m. – 9:45 p.m. – Scherrer Enterprises, LLC, 160-166 S. Broad St., Block 3905, Lots 4 & 5 – Clarification of conditions of approval and timing of permits and certificate of occupancy.

6.      9:45 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. – Discussion re: Referral of Ordinance #3411 – Amendments to the redevelopment plan for the North Walnut Street Redevelopment Area.


7.      10:00 p.m. – 10:05 p.m. – Approval of Minutes – October 29, 2013


8.      10:05 p.m. – 10:15 p.m. – Executive Session if needed

                                       
9.      Adjournment

In accordance with the Open Public Meetings Act, all meetings of the Ridgewood Planning Board (i.e., official public meetings, work sessions, pre-meeting assemblies and special meetings) are public meetings, which are always open to members of the general public.


Members: Mayor Paul Aronsohn, Nancy Bigos, Councilman Pucciarelli, Charles Nalbantian, Morgan Hurley, Kevin Reilly, Richard Joel, Wendy Dockray, Michele Peters

Professional Staff: Blais L. Brancheau, Planner; Gail L. Price, Esq., Board Attorney; Christopher J. Rutishauser, Village Engineer; Jane Wondergem, Board Secretary