If there is ever another property like the horse farm or Schedler, the Village should learn its lesson and refuse to buy the land. Let a developer buy it and build whatever they can get zonned. I have had enough of ungrateful neighbors who use my tax dollars to buy millions of dollars of land which is not not taxed and then whine about getting rid of dead trees and having a couple buses drive through their neighborhood. Enough is enough. The experiment has failed. The neighbors beg us to pay millions for the land to avoid it becoming condos, strip malls or whatever and then 5 years later obstruct any attempt to make the land useful. From now on, let the market decide what happens to any future properties. The village has to get out of this businesses.
It bothers me that after the village buys these properties (which is great) that they name them after the owner like Habernickel Park. If the owner donates the property then fine, I’m all for it. I suggest we immediately rename Habernickel to something else.
Hillcrest Park
Habernickle was not the original owners,the property used to belong to the Hoffman family. As for naming the park why not after the street it is on.
Sell them !!!!!
Do people not understand that this is a green acre and open space funded park. In the green acre rules a FOR PROFIT / PRIVATE business just is not allowed. How on earth did this private business get the lease. And as far as usage, Habernickel fields are used everyday and all summer long by maroons soccer and Ridgewood baseball as they should be. The neighbors are not complaining about the traffic or noise from this usage. They are upset with a business in their neighborhood. People should know the facts before they comment. Also the name should be changed 100 percent. The land was purchased for millions not donated by any Habernickel.
How about Hauck Park?
Hillcrest Park the former owners did not donate the land
Let the market decide?? The land is NOT zoned for commercial and not zoned for apartments either. Any other private owner would have needed to apply to zoning board for change of use and gone through numerous hoops. But as we have learned the Village does not need to follow any laws whatsover.
Clearly the writer does not quite understand the meaning and purpose of open spaces.
Sell it.
we spend money on shit we did not need. we spent money on land and building’s , and then we had the biggest lay off of ridgewood. and to this day some departments never rehired workers.