Reader says This looks like something out of a town In a Horror MOVIE.happy Holloween Ridgewood ..your Hollywood Set is Permanently BAD..
I studied one of the signs this evening. Nowhere does it indicate who paid for it or who is sponsoring this. So can I put anonymous signs all over the place promoting whatever plan I have for the betterment (or detriment) of Ridgewood? Well Paulie Boy, can I????????
The Paul & Christine show are littering the area with signs. It’s no secret that Paul’s business would be helped with more parking but the $13 mil price tag is a little steep. If this is any indication how he’ll vote when it comes to raising taxes, we’re in for a bumpy ride.
Home come all of the schools and public parks and spaces are covered with YES signs? Are they formally sanctioned by the Village of Ridgewood?
So what is the deal here? Can I put signs all over the place for my own agenda? Supposing I want to open a chapter of the KKK here in Ridgewood like they are doing elsewhere in Bergen County – can I put these signs up and down Ridgewood Avenue, on the school grounds, in the parks? No, I can’t? Well why not? Aronsohn and his idiot brigade have opened a HUGE can of worms with this. Anyone now will be able to post signs just because this precedent has been set.
This is going to be a HUGE disaster, mark my word
Matt Rogers says it is okay but then again is he being to,d to say it is okay or is it truthfully okay.
They are looking shoddy. I was in town last Saturday and the number of signs has increased. They are stuck in crooked positions in planters. Nice touch.
The out of town shoppers can’t vote. How many residents own stores? They should have sold this to the residents better. A vision for a vibrant downtown – what exactly would that look like? Sell me the dream, not a parking lot.
They all look like crap, once we get the garage and high density housing then the village will just become another dump and those that have made these so called improvements will no longer be around and will not really care.
I’m boycotting our central business district over these stupid signs and the chamber of commerce.village is a mess and I refuse to support them any longer.
Thus violates the sign ordinance.
2:27 are you saying any signs can be stuck in the planters and tree wells? Downtown is a mess and so is all over town. Signs belong on private property. 3:08 has a good idea to boycott downtown.
forget about “bad form” – this is not legal.
BTW, I was in town all week and had no problem parking (as usual). It is only a challenge on Friday and Saturday night during the dinner rush.
This parking garage will be empty – a costly folly, a financial burden to the taxpayer and a crime magnet
5:08pm is correct Friday and Saturday nights are tough.
Can’t understand why business owners in the CBD, who clearly want the parking garage, aren’t willing to help pay for it…. and how stupid are the Council to put taxpayers at 100% of the risk for the inevitable cost overruns and delays that we always get with Municipal contracting? At least if business owners had their own skin in the game, they might act as a check on outrageous cost overruns and “change order” stupidity that will drive up costs 2~3X on a plain vanilla project that should be built on-time and under budget. The Council really are proving their stupidity and arrogance here.
The business owners should have to pay a “special improvement district” tax to offset the cost of the garage and other village provided services. Fort Lee charges this type of tax on businesses, and after all, Ridgewood is the next Fort Lee.
Because the business owners don’t own the buildings that’s why. Is that so hard to understand? Let the landlords pay for it… There a hord of blood sucking vampires anyway.,,,
Can I put a garage sale sign in the planters?
Yes! the landlords, brilliant idea.
I favor more parking but not a centralized garage such as this one. There is often parking somewhere if you are willing to walk, and you will still need to walk from this garage location so I do not see it being filled with shoppers or really helping businesses. Commuters most likely to use the garage.
Funny no one complained when the “STOP VALLEY” signs were plastered all over town. Now the very same people complain when someone else puts up signs. .
actually you did incessantly
Stop valley and stop the apartment project signs were put on people’s front lawns – – not public property.
We have really given up on all the rules of civility that used to be the hall mark of Village life. The mayor should order public works department to drive through town and take down all of the garage signs on public property.
7:59, most if not all commercial leases include a real estate tax reimbursement clause. Yes, you will bill the landlord, however it will be passed through to the tenants as additional rent. But if you want all property owners only to pay for the garage, you might just get your wish with that type of thinking.
Tito’s Burrito’s looks so much better than all the garbage that has been shrewn all over the CBD.
When I lived here NO signs were allowed, including “for sale.” It wouldn’t be so bad to return to those stricter but more polite days.
…sorry, I meant when I FIRST lived here. Freudian slip?
12:00am, with respect to such restictions placed fee simple owners of detached single-family residential homes, to return to those days would be bad, because it would empower local government (including the likes of the three Amigos) to impose undue restrictions on our free speech rights, given to us by G*d. And we wouldn’t want that, now would we!?!?