
The crowd who loves high-density CBD housing, massive hospital expansions, and giant money losing garages hate adding more parking to the train station and CBD in a simple and low-cost manner. Why? Because supporting simple, low-cost, low-impact, high-ROI programs undermines their entire narrative of over-developing. Is Sears failing from a lack of parking? Is Englewood, NJ struggling with store-front retail due to a lack of parking? We have the parking, the very well done Walker and Maser reports show we don’t use what we have. Why don’t we try maximizing all the space we have already dedicated to parking first, then think about building. The garages all lose money even while requiring huge fee increases and are really subsidies for the local developer and a couple land owners in the CBD.
RIDGEWOOD, N.J.– A petition objecting to the size of a proposed Ridgewood parking garage on Hudson Street received 1,227 signatures, resident Dana Glazer told Daily Voice.
On Tuesday, officials repealed the ordinance authorizing a partnership with the Bergen County Improvement Authority to construct the multi-level parking deck,.
This comes after the Village Council unanimously approved bonding $11.5 million towards the project.
At the March meeting, most citizens spoke in favor of the proposed four-story, five-level structure, while some said it’s too big.
“We definitely need more than one garage,” said Lorraine Reynolds, who also led a petition drive against a proposal to have the Bergen County Improvement Authority build the facility and lease it back to the village. “I think more than three levels in that location is going to be too overpowering.”
“If the signatures are certified by the Village Clerk, then the petitioners will have forced us to hold a special election in June at a cost of about $45,000,” Mayor Paul Aronsohn told Daily Voice.
The council must repeal the ordinance or a special election would occur 40 to 60 days after certification, Aronsohn added. .
The petition will put funding on hold and allow the five council members to talk compromise, according to Reynolds.
“If it’s agreed to lowering it one story to three stories, four levels, the petition will be withdrawn,” she added, “and we move forward immediately with a three-story, four-level parking garage funded in house.”
@7:50a – Yes and the voices from the past support ALL of them. That’s the point, the group that supports them all has a clear agenda of providing a taxpayer-subsidized, money losing, mega-garage for the local developer and the main landowners in the CBD. There are garage supporters who do not support the high-density apartments along the train tracks and did not support the huge hospital. Those garage supporters want a smaller garage that fits the lot and fits in with the surrounding buildings. Unlike the over developers, they have been transparent with their reasoning.
It is just landscaping in a parking lot.
This is a very clever and cost effective way to add commuter parking.
IT IS A PARKING LOT NOT A PARK
Ridgewood Conservancy is very confused
Ridgewood Conservancy is not confused. They wear blinders as they blindly follow our former mayor. With a professional marketing and public relations company advising them, they keep trying everything to get what they want, for selfish reasons, even though it would be a disaster. Hey–sounds like Republicans.
Fix is in
Likely schedule the build it big on Hudson while most residents are at the Shore and vacationing. ahrondohns legacy rises from the swomps
11:54 I guess you were able to keep your Doctor and premiums went down $2,500.
and 1124 there are supporters of a garage that is a compromise as well as HDH while being against renewal. This is not a 1 size fits all issue… its an a la carte struggle…