We should be honest about what is driving this endless discussion.Note last massively expensive boondoggle on Hudson Street which took an unprecedented Referendum that our own Mayor and management was
Involved in those petitions and steering.
The taxpayers don’t want any garage on Hudson street..it will be a money crime and urban blight as any transit center garage becomes..look at any similar models.It will attract out of towners to flog our streets with transitional commuters not interested in most businesses outside of Coffee grab and go small shops near the train station.
ReLine and pave the existing surface lots at Hudson,Cottage place and the central district lots . Allocate some employee parking and incent those
Employers to enforce that accommodation .yes and everyone will have a walk a bit more that’s the Vallet services who wisk those visitors away
from ridgewood despite the dreams of the small shops to attract walking
Customers who might take a look or pick up a specialty item on the way to their cars parked on surface lots or God forbid at the train station on weekends that almost always have visitor and resident parking after six.
My priority is not to make the restaurants happy on my dime/taxes and fees in ridgewood drive the Boomers to cash out and leave.Lets get a grip on this endless parking discussion..no less the possible housing boondoggles that Englewood Morristown and other Towns have suffered
We don’t want to be a Transit Village,we want to be a smarter Ridgewood
Town leaders figure this out and out Taxpayer first( not restaurants for a change ) lets wish our new management Luck.Middle ground solutions needed..Uber logistics on short trips is taking over the world.
If I never hear the phrase “Hudson Street garage” again, it will be too soon. NO GARAGE.