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Planning Board taps experts to review Valley Hospital expansion

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Planning Board taps experts to review Valley Hospital expansion
March 26, 2013
the staff of the Ridgewood blog

Ridgewood NJ, As previously reported the Ridgewood Planning Board is hiring several experts to advise the village as it moves forward with public hearings on Valley Hospital’s planned expansion .

While the quality as well as the objectivity has been long debated on this blog ,here is what we know so far:

The hospital’s application will be the focus of the board’s proceedings for the next two months, with the next hearing set for next Tuesday.

Gordon Meth of RBA Group was tapped March 11 as the traffic engineer.The board also agreed it would hire a geotechnical and environmental expert from Whippany’s Converse Consultants.

The RBA Group was founded in 1968 as a dynamic partnership of engineers, architects, planners and environmentalists who worked together in the creation of new towns across the United States. For over forty years, the company has continued its mission of innovative, quality services that work towards enhancing the quality of life. With offices in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Maryland and Pennsylvania we have a combined staff of nearly 250 talented engineers, planners, architects, technicians and support personnel working on everything from small, local projects to massive infrastructure assignments.( https://www.rbagroup.com/profile/ )

Since 1946 Converse has lead the industry in geotechnical engineering and today Converse’s experienced and dedicated hands-on professional team continues to use advanced technologies and infrastructure development to provide quality innovative solutions for each of our services. Converse serves a wide range of Core Markets. ( https://www.converseconsultants.com/ )

The village’s Blais Brancheau, is going to serve as the board’s planning expert for the hospital hearings, along with village engineer Chris Rutishauser officially providing his expertise to the board as well.The Planning Board is  also looking to  appoint an architect to review the plans on its behalf.

The next special meeting will be on April 2 hearing in the Benjamin Franklin Middle School auditorium.

4 thoughts on “Planning Board taps experts to review Valley Hospital expansion

  1. Same old faces again…? Watch that Village Engineer, he is all over place again. He has made to many mistakes over the years.

  2. Again, the PB is refusing to hire an urban planner that would look at the question from the perspective of the neighbors. This is the one thing the neighbors asked for when they were allowed to ask questions regarding the process. Any doubt which way this is going to end up?

  3. If Blais Brancheau and Chris Rutishauser want to keep their job they better do what Mayor Paul Aronsohn tells to do.

  4. They don’t give a damn about residents. It is all about the $$$$$$

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