Evan Weitz –Aren’t you an attorney? Somewhat educated? Well., let’s see. The complaint was NOT filed by a group of dissatisfied residents. Nope. It was filed by John Paff, who is an open-government activist who does not live in Ridgewood. As an attorney, which you purport to be, you ought to get the FACTS straight. The Local Finance Board found Aronsohn and Sonenfeld GUILTY of using public funds to promote their own agenda. The size of the fine is meaningless – the fact is, they were found guilty, and rightly so. Mr. Weitz, you ran a (thankfully) failed attempt to get elected in Ridgewood. So we know now that you are NOT an advocate of the people. You, as a resident, do not care that your tax dollars were used to promote one side of a referendum question. You will never get elected, I hope you know that. Never. You come from the same poison well as Sonenfeld and Aronsohn. Done.
From now on James, whenever you have to post a picture of Aronsohn, this is the one to post. It is priceless!
Evan Weitz. Another little disciple of Roberta and Paul
“Meanwhile, a separate group of residents, also including [Lorraine] Reynolds, filed a lawsuit against the village on June 10, 2016, alleging the same ethics violations as Paff — three days before his complaint was filed. Anne Loving, one of the residents named as a plaintiff in that suit, stated by email that her and Reynolds’ legal action was withdrawn…” While the Amen Corner was not party to Paff’s suit, you could easily conclude that the only reason he even _heard_ about the potential for the suit was because of the suit filed by this group of dissatisfied residents. They want to have it all ways: create division and strife, then stand on the side, take pictures and say “Oh look at that strife over there! I can’t believe Paul created all this division!”
Actually 11:18, aka Paul Smith, the person who tipped John Paff was not part of the group of 6 who filed the lawsuit.
“they” want to have it all ways……. I for one appreciate “them,” because they do something about issues in this town and they put “their” names and faces on it – unlike anonymous people who just stir up trouble without having the courage to appear at meetings or on referendums. Even if you don’t agree with “them,” you can’t fault them for putting a face to their names and statements.
So first Roberta and Paul use public funds illegally to influence their stupid parking garage vote. Then we find out that Roberta, under the reign of Paul, has signed a contract that is in direct conflict with the resolution, costing us (according to the CFO last week) upwards of $200,000. Wow, Roberta, you were aces. Thank you so much for the breath of fresh air that you left on our fair town.
Active “vote yes” promotion of the parking garage by elected office holders and village employees was always wrong, wrong, wrong, and NOBODY should be criticized for complaining. Whether they live in Ridgewood or not. This was a thumb in the eye of village residents and a flagrant abuse of the reins of government. The fact that we have neighbors willing go on record with complaints against such behavior is a blessing we don’t always deserve.
2:17. Agreed
Don’t forget about the $600k in construction documents Roberta ordered BEFORE the design was even finailized for Garagezilla. The Village should sue her.
Favorite part of video: “Look around us at the horrendous condition of this parking lot” THAT WE DELIBERATELY ALLOWED TO DETERIORATE SO THAT WE COULD SAY A GARAGE WOULD LOOK NICER.”
1:20… hate to disappoint you, that wasn’t me. I guess someone else felt Amen corner was appropriate. Unlike you, I do post my name whenever commenting.
I never use my name when posting here. It is an anonymous blog.
Lol. You people, so sanctimonious. “Blessings we don’t deserve.” Ha! Keep congratulating yourselves in a giant onanistic celebration while you stifle all the improvements that the village actually needs. The apartments are coming. That’s a done deal. That removes parking supply and increases parking demand. The best time to plant a tree? 10 years ago. The second best time? Today. Same is true with parking.
good than the developers can pay for a parking lot, problem solved
535… makes it easy to hide.
We all have to face this: the developers already have all they need to create the demand wth no requirement to deal with parking. Zero. It’s done. It’s real. So, now what? Two choices: 1) Pat each other on the back for a Pyrrhic victory waged and won by a six hundreths of one percent (0.06%) of the village. Charge now completely irrelevant participants the equivalent of a month of lattes. When the tenants move in, create (on purpose) soul-sucking grid-lock thereby killing any hope of actually growing our micro-economy and getting outside money into the coffers of our village or 2) Accept reality and take steps to address a problem that has existed for forty years and is now literally guaranteed to get far worse. Or maybe there’s a #3) we can just sit around and count some more blessings we don’t deserve.
no one is going to rent or buy with no parking
I am going to send this picture for a 24*36 print and frame it for my living room. This is priceless!
Anonymous December 13, 2017 at 5:52 pm said,
The best time to plant a tree? 10 years ago. The second best time? Today. Same is true with parking.
When do you have to to cut up a tree? After it falls and wrecks your house. The best time to cut up a tree? Today before it falls on your house. Same is true with parking.
7.27…but we don’t want to become Morristown,Montclair or Hackensack
for the contrived demands of cut and run developers hungry pockets…Is it clear yet? oh no facts just doesn’t fill your coffers on our backs..105 M school budget..parking department corruption….Out of control and you want to Dig baby dig! town can’t pave a road and you want cannery row of oversized rentals and condos with little to no on site parking..schools overloaded with rentals from other countries citizens on our dimes..are we clear yet..?Vor taxpayers Just SAY NO.
10:56 – do you want to go in on a banner-size copy to hang over the railroad trestle? I’m in!
Ridgewood does not need a parking garage for our current residents. If people won’t move into the condos and apartments because there is no room for most to park one car, and definitely not the two that most families own, that should be the builders’ problem. Ridgewood certainly does not need to build for scalper’s convenience. They are just going to build and run, leaving us with huge vacant structures that will make the Town Garage site look beautiful in comparison.