No one on the council was against A garage, they were against THE garage as originally planned. Many pro garage residents also turned against the first iteration, based on the size of the proposed structure. Now the issue is a higher cost and the cost of money is slowly rising. a hundred bucks per basis point increase per million soon adds up over the life of the financing bond. The deputy mayor presented plan b last year, which seemed palatable and fit in the footprint.
Sell the Ridgewood Water Co give the other towns their share of the profits. Take Ridgewood’s portion and build the garage.
We’re not at the financing portion yet and the construction costs are right where they were when we did this is 2015. This is what big concrete garages cost. We don’t use when we have, dozens of spots open on weekend nights, a failed valet program because there is no need to pay someone to park your car when there is ample parking everywhere.