Reader: with development comes more parking issues

Reader: with development comes more parking issues

I am typically pro development as long as it’s well thought out. So let’s think about a parking garage.

Parking rates will need to economically sustain the cost of building the garage, so they will be higher than the meter rates around town. That will create an imbalance, and people will park in the garage only as a last resort. People who live in Ridgewood (and pay for all this) will also face the squeeze (unless Ridgewood pulls a Hoboken and blocks out street parking areas for residents only).

Fast forward: some bright bulb with a newly minted MBA interns in Village Hall, and realizes that the Village could capitalize on the imbalance between street parking prices and garage parking prices. They commission a “study”, a red herring really, but someone’s friend could use the money so why not. The “study” will reveal the obvious: The Village can raise the price of on-street parking to be more in line with the garage prices because, you guessed it, fuck you, that’s why.

If that’s what you want, then stick your head back in the sand.