JUNE 12, 2015 LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 2015, 12:31 AM
BY MARK KRULISH
STAFF WRITER |
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
Last week, the Ridgewood Planning Board ended a five-year process of work session meetings, testimony from experts, board deliberation and public comment hearings with the approval of a master plan amendment that will allow for higher density and mixed use housing projects in the Central Business District (CBD).
The amendment allows housing in the AH-2 zone, an affordable housing district encompassing the Brogan Cadillac site on South Broad Street, the B-3-R zone, which includes the Ken Smith property on Franklin Avenue and the section of North Maple Avenue between East Ridgewood and Franklin avenues, and the C-R zone, which is a small plot of land on Chestnut Street intended for commercial and mixed use development.
These zones will allow 30 units per acre of for-sale affordable housing and 35 units per acre of for-rent affordable housing and cap the height of the buildings at 50 feet. The original amendment allowed for as much as 50 units per acre, but was scaled back in a revised amendment presented to the Planning Board in late April.
Throughout the process, developers representing three potential housing projects presented testimony regarding their respective proposed developments. The projects presented were The Dayton, a 106-unit complex in the old Brogan Cadillac lot; the 52-unit Enclave proposed for the intersection of East Ridgewood and North Maple Avenues; and Chestnut Village, a 52-unit luxury development slated for Chestnut Street near the village’s central garage.
https://www.northjersey.com/news/decision-draws-mixed-reactions-1.1354518
How much will affordable housing be? If they are condos how much will the property taxes be?
parking garage; low income housing…
way to urbanize the village.!
The corrupt socialist RW politicos and their cronies will be pleased…
Advancing Obamas goal to “fundamentally transform America”, implement new HUD rules to “bring low income residents into wealthy neighborhoods” and make loads of cash in the process.
Win Win Win (who cares if it destroys Ridgewood… there are larger goals in play here…)
Well BOED dust off your redistricting map.
The heart just sinks. Very, very sad.
Well the westside is safe as far a redistricting. They will just move the boundary to the west a few yards and the east side will get and children from those tenements. The railroad tracks will be the new line.
Tenements…that’s too funny…you are a complete Ridgewood asshole 12:10…just completely.
Your are a candidate for one of your Mayor civility meeting 1:45
12:10 Wishful thinking. Maybe add some temporary trailers to your schools till the declining elementary school population arrives.
The condos are yours.