James,
Look at the cites posted by others for reference to the lawsuit. The concerned citizens filed the lawsuit when Arohnson was still mayor. The new council came in afterwards.
Yes, Arohnson and Pucciarlelli shoved a knife through the heart of the Village on their way out the door. But the Villagers who filed the lawsuit to stop the housing projects hoped that the new council would take their side in the litigation. Instead, the new council hired a lawyer from out of town who fought tooth and nail against the concerned citizens of Ridgewood. He and the council rebuffed every attempt to settle the lawsuit. The town could have settled with its citizens and then fought the developers. It chose not to do so. Instead, this current council made a conscious decision to oppose the Villagers and support the developers, including those from out of town who have no stake in the well being of our Village.
Sadly, those are the facts. But, don’t take it from this poster or the articles cited by others. Ask the council why they did not settle with their citizens, why they chose instead to cut the legs off of their citizens in the lawsuit and why they chose to support enforcement of the statutes allowing the housing projects to go forward. Ask them why they took the developers’ side over the side of the people who voted them in.
Let’s hear their response.