file photo by ArtChick
Blah blah blah , all you care about is VALUE meaning MONEY. That’s why we have this multi family fiasco in the first place and it doesn’t matter if there is a Godzilla garage anymore.
You don’t care about what will be irretrievably lost in Ridgewood, the small town character , feel , charm, that special personality…. that I moved in for in nineteen seventy- eight and that yes, by and large remained, and that idiot planning board member, who said RIDGEWOOD IS A BUSY PLACE, so it’s NOT SO BAD that there will be all this multi family mess, is an example of the majority mind set and lack of aesthetic sensitivity. What in the HELL does he mean a BUSY PLACE. Everyone in the world , basically, raises a family, works a job, does that mean we have to live in an ugly overcrowded , polluted environment. All beauty and charm gone. I spoke at many meetings about keeping Ridgewood THE SAME, wrote many letters. To no avail. You will all be overjoyed to know that this is my goodbye to the blog and to all town meetings. James does a great job with the blog, but the town, as I have known it will soon be transformed into another crowded Joisey mess and I no longer want to be involved. One last point, Earth Day also means living in a pleasing environment without tons of traffic and pollution resulting from traffic. Earth Day is ruined in Ridgewood as far as I am concerned.
Not entirely sure what the complaint over capitalistic impulses means – – yes, there is an overlap here – – those opposing the overdevelopment of Ridgewood want the charm of our Village and the value of our houses to be maintained – – the Aronson Council and the developers it fawned all over began the process of taking charm and value from Village taxpayers and lining the pockets of the developers at the same time – – its not clear this Council is at all committed to stopping further erosion of both the things we hold dear and the things we need to maintain our financial wherewithal, while choosing instead, methinks, too protest too much and do too little.
RIDGEWOOD
Pave the roads dammit.
Borrow it,bond it ,find it.stop ignoring it..
Not sexy enough?.?
Meantime PSEG tearing down what little flat asphalt we have and doing a bullshit job in repairs
Ridgewood is a lovely town. I have lived here for 30 years and have never felt that it had a “small town” feel.
I grew up in what was, and still is, a small town. I have friends who still live there. There is no social competition in a small town. There may be different social groups, but Ridgewood residents are constantly competiting with each other. My school is better than yours, my kids got into “better” colleges.
You got that right 601….it’s just that so many people like the writer think that things are just never going to change and that in itself is just complete ass backwards. In the same boat as the people who continue to call this place a “Village” , holding on to a time long gone. It’s 2017 NOT 1978. We’re moving forward with or without you.
turning Ridgewood into a low budget sh$thole is not moving forward ,its running backward
Matter of opinion James, it’s as simple as that. One thing for sure is that the status quo is unsustainable and will not take us to the future. It won’t take us to next year for that matter.