Reader says say Good-Bye to Ridgewood, as we know it
Say Good-Bye to Ridgewood, as we know it, McMansion of Valley seems nearer? After years of discussions, now the town, must drop everything and vote before June the 30th? Really?
The hospital sits on a 15 acre site in the middle of a residential neighborhood and next to a middle school. Valley, is claiming that they’ve made this more appealing? Really? Going from four stories of parking to five? Their appealing makes no sense, as does this over expansion. Same plans with some more lipstick? Really?
We are all for a state-of the-art facility with single patient rooms. Just do it with minimal setbacks and building height. If you can’t achieve what you think you need then expand at your Paramus facility! Don’t ruin Ridgewood. You have options Valley, you need to really re-think your plans. You have Pascack Valley as a huge competitor now. Maybe your scope should really properly be adjusted? Valley Hospital, can thrive as a “Community Hospital” and is not endangered as they like us to think.
Valley Hospital now, puts a huge strain on Ridgewood. Doubling the size will double our problems..more traffic, more police, and more taxes. Remember Valley is NOT for profit and pays no taxes. Hey, they just started paying for water.
Maintaing the Status Quo…. never works.
Participate in the improvement process…and you will be amazed how well it all comes out.
The town is on the chopping block to the highest bidder from the political hacks running the town.
They’ll bleed her dry, cheered on by the lambs who are being led to their own slaughter.
Long gone are the glory days of Ridgewood,
yes we should be a shit hole like the rest of New Jersey
Status Quo – Can you please explain what the “improvement process” is and who you are speaking for?
Typical delusional Ridgewood claptrap, #2,3. The only thing worse than people who think Ridgewood is the greatest place in the universe are the assholes who complain all the time. Usually these groups are one and the same. I can name a half dozen towns in NJ that are just as nice as Ridgewood:
Millburn
Summit
Madison
Montclair
Morristown
Red Bank
It’s a nice town. Valley is a great hospital and adds value to the community. Get over it.
Maintaing the Status Quo?
#2, I don’t know of anyone asking for this or suggesting this?
We all want Valley to update and become a more state-of-the-art-facility. I think we can also all agree to single patient rooms?
MANY believe Valley in asking for “way too much” in terms of height and setbacks. This ureasonable thinking has caused them much harm. Their unreasonable expansion over many years has now lead to Pascack Valley to re-open. So instead of asking for a resonable re-do they push for almost the same over expansion. The answer should still be no. Third time a charm? maybe? Seems Valley has a huge EGO problem and still feels that they can defeat Ridgewood with their current same re-do proposal. Enough!
Valley, should be embarrased by their past expansion actions, yet they continue down the same pathetic path?
Morristown and Red Bank ? Really ? Knowing people who live there, and having been to both places several times over the last 10-15 years, you will be able to compare them to Ridgewood if this joke of an idea goes through. Both of those towns have done nothing but go downhill over the last decade…open your eyes !!!
“Typical delusional Ridgewood claptrap, #2,3.”
Doesn’t this prove #2 and #3’s point that RW is not the town it used to be?