We live in the Hawes district but on the other side of Rt 17N. The school is so crowded that our new neighbors have been told that their Kindergarten daughter cannot go to Hawes but will be bussed to yet another school. If Ridgewood is so overcrowded WITHOUT those apartments, what will happen when they come in? And the school children inventory was not done in any of the garden apartments in town, just the one high rise on Maple. We all know the reason for that!
Taking a population count in the garden apartments would prove that the builder’s have no idea how many children would live in the new apartments, as a good number live in the garden apartments. I really don’t understand why our Planning Board, and now our Council, have not bothered to make our town Planner do something other than” the devil is in the details.”
The district has the student’s names and addresses in a data base. They could produce a report listing all students residing at specific addresses – if they wanted to know.
Ask for a report of students sorted by multifamily apartments. If they can’t do this then they need to hire IT staff that can produce reports on demand. Can taxpayers request this type of summary information? Just give us a count, not the addresses.
Builders and the three stooges on the town council do not share or care about your concerns.
Original poster: your suggestion is excellent but posting it on the blog is only the first step. Please send your comments (noting what another poster says about using the school database) to the full council with a cc: to the Village Manager. The official email address for all is firstinitiallastname@ridgewoodnj.net (make sure you spell their names right), or see the village website for all. Please consider attending a council meeting afterward to make this request publicly, stating that you have sent it to them. Since what you request would be so easy to fulfill and cost nothing, they would have to come up with a pretty good excuse to say no.
There are over 31 children in the oak street apartments (buildings that begin with 250 oak and end with 320 oak) that attend Ridge school. A look in the school handbook gives you that tally. There are many more children that live in other apartments (buildings on heights, ridge etc)
Safe to assume these children may have siblings attending the middle school and or high school.
Population control isn’t exactly a strategy to address overcrowding in schools.
No but it is irresponsible to add more children without addressing the current crowding levels! Ditto for traffic…
@3:53…well misleading everyone re: the current appeal of apartments to families is not helpful either
Bring back the auto dealers, problem solved.