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There is a big demand for parking from 6-10pm weekends to accommodate the dining crowd from oak to broad area. If the lazy diners walked 3-4 blocks they could get a parking space,
Many good spaces haven been eliminated as they are dedicated valet .
Let the restaurant owners pay for the garage,
As a long time resident I have zero interest in subsiding your business
As a longtime resident, and I mean longtime, I love the design of Ridgewood, CBD, and I don’t want it damaged for any businesses, damaged means a garage put in. Let my taxes be raised if need be. The beauty and charm of Ridgewood should live forever. Businesses come and go, but the design of Ridgewood must last forever.
The author should have chosen to move somewhere without a downtown. Many of us choose to live in Ridgewood precisely because of the downtown. In this instance, in order for it to survive we need to build a parking garage.
who is “we” ????
What a stupid comment. Nothing is forever and for good reason. The lack of parking is well known and pretending it’s only due to lazy people on certain days at certain hours is ridiculous. During normal business and evening hours parking is difficult. Period. I don’t want to see pictures of empty streets taken at 7:00 in the morning when nothing is open. The garage will never get built thanks to the vocal minority who discourage anything that signals growth or progress. If they could go back to horse and buggy they’d keep that too. I’m 60 years old have lived here over 20 years and can appreciate the value of change. This short-sightedness ignores the reality of the times and is a detriment to the town. Careful what you wish for because we are headed towards empty store fronts and a decaying CBD to accompany the long empty car lots instead of attractive housing you also oppose.
Ignores the obvious point that the CBD has existed for many decades without a garage and has been able to thrive. In fact there is more parking now than there was 3-4 decades ago. Are there more cars? Only as the original post notes during Thurs-Sat dining hours so hardly justifying the Taj Mahal structure vested interests are seeking. I agree that commuter parking–which is a distinctly different issue–needs a better solution.
What a stupid comment. There is no lack of parking and pretending a garage is needed is ridiculous.
What stupid comment.
The shift of shopping to online sites and landlord greed is well known and driving empty store fronts and the decaying CBD and pretending that it is due to lack of parking is ridiculous.
Thanks 8:39…it’s complete idiots like you who are the problem here. Raise taxes…what a dolt. And don’t worry 10:56 cooler heads will prevail this time around. Half of the past vocal minority are dead or dying off so we won’t have this continued shortsightedness with regards to progress for Ridgewood.
I do not think it is fair to the residents of Ridgewood to close off half the parking near favored restaurants (the new steakhouse for example) for Valet parking. The purpose off valet parking was originally to open more spaces for customers, not reserve prime spots for Valet.
In fact, they have even taken a spot across the street directly in front of the new Mexican restaurant, depriving their customers of parking while providing extra service to the Steakhouse. Is this fair to anyone?
@10:33. I didn’t have a choice. I was born here over 60 years ago, and choSe to stay, unlike you New Yorkers who are temporary residents for 10 years and bitch about everything. Let’s see how much support ther is for a garage if it’s Buick down by stop and shop , instead of a stones throw from th commercial properties of a few formerly connected carpetbagger developers. Or too far away to be considered as off street parking of some apartment proposals.
Idiots like you used to complain that we had too many liquor stores or too many gas stations before you began to complain about too many banks.
Typical whiny former New Yorker. Why don’t you do us a favor and move back there and leave Ridgewood the nice town that it always has been before 6ou blessed us with your loud and obnoxious presence.
The carpet baggers came to town, they hedged their bets, bought some real estate,.they had confidence their puppet council would accommodate their demands so they can build build build , pocket the profits, and leave while sticking the taxpayers with the tab for a garage to enhance their bets,
You made a bet. You wanted to make the village into your vision of a “Montclair light “. You lost.
Now do us all a favor and go the fuck home, back to your real home which isn’t 07450.
8:39, you like the design of huge empty old auto dealers, the toxic plume in the underground water under the old Town Garage, and the collapsing old Village municipal garage? This is “beauty and charm”? Have you walked the mean streets of the CBD recently?
Ummm 7:44, Ridgewood was incorporated in 1894 but much of the development happened after Merrill Lynch bankers from New York choose it as a place for weekend homes. History repeats.
Merrill Lynch was founded :January 6, 1914, New York City, NY
Changing is coming. I love how they call out the charm of downtown it looks like a old dump with the dilapidated eyesores that linger . But the old-timers from Ridgewood our afraid to make a change and love to complain about their taxes. Also on another note the downtown graydon pool really needs to change also.