file photo by Boyd Loving
The garage is all about high density housing, not restaurants. Without it, the over development of Ridgewood cannot happen. Without over development the property owners, who paid a lot for the land, cannot make money. They need to develop the lots past what parking on the property supports to maximize rental revenue.
They are playing the long game to draw families here to multi bedroom rentals with our schools as the magnetic force. It is very simple. Problem is, our schools are over capacity and our high school is well past capacity. So, how will our schools stay at the top? They can’t. That doesn’t concern the developer, he’ll have sold by then. It will be someone else’s problem. It is simple and undeniably true. They lie about Brogan and Ken Smith parking spaces needing to be replaced, spots that are not a part of the public parking inventory. “Smiling faces with hidden agendas”.
The garage is the Trojan Horse. The village now admits, we don’t need more parking, we don’t even utilize what we have. Higher density, higher congestion, higher fees. They want a city.
Yep, absolutely correct!
Absolutely. See the Observer article about the guys from Minnesota that want to build here in Ridgewood but can’t do it without the garage. Ditto Mr. Saraceno, Mr Simoncini and the rest of the “Truth and Progress” crowd. We have been sold out. I feel sorry for the families that have no financial interest in the garage who have been duped into supporting it. You know who you are – there’s still time to get some of those “Design D” signs off your lawn. You’ve been had.
Vote for Hache. Voigt and Walsh and the garage will not be so huge. Guaranteed.
I agree. The garage will help the defelopers of high density housing.
When they come up short on parking they can point to the garage.
If I am going to The Office I will be parking near that location. I would not walk to Hudson street.
If you are going to Crave would you park at Hudson?
We micro-park. We like to be relatively close to where we are going. Who really parks in town and saunters around for three hours? I go to town with a purpose and then leave. Maybe someone from a nearby town would stay longer since they drove all the way to Ridgewood. Those are the people that the garage is for.
Hi James:
Subject: The truth behind ‘progress ridgewood’ and ‘the truth behind ridgewood page’
There is a new facebook page called ‘the truth behind ridgewood’. It’s founder is running sponsored ads against Bernie, Jeff and Ramon and is also running ads in favor of Weitz, Willet and Brooks. The founder has also posted that he is a contributor to “Progress Ridgewood” group. The progress ridgewood group is supporting Weitz, Willet and Brooks They have recorded campaign videos for all three with same background at the same office and posted on same youtube channel – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRZHBgmFO5y7g30tg-Fsm-A
Here is the truth about the founder of “the truth about ridgewood” facebook page, who is backing these three candidates. What favors will he expect from them after they are in the office?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdBw1bCMTfE
Here is the embed code to play the video on the blog:
“Vote for Hache. Voigt and Walsh and the garage will not be so huge. Guaranteed.”
Who do I vote for so that the garage does not get built at all?