If the rates go up, no one will come. Since I can’t park near a business I want to go to, I’m sure not going to pay $1.00 an hour extra for a cup of coffee. The Daily Treat will be among the first ones to suffer. That free parking for customers lot will soon be out lawed. Since the VC seems to be surprised by how much they have to pay so that Ridgewood customers can pay extra to park, what boondoggles will they not be prepared for next? Since they seem to expect that all the new housing will make a profit for the town, maybe that is all we should turn to for raising money? (of course that assumes that water will suddenly leap out of the ground, people will only want to walk so no traffic lights or changes, etc. etc.) Has anyone actually asked any business owner if they would be willing to pay an extra $5.00 per table to earn money at their site? The village just assumes they will be eager to provide free parking so more people will come. Their budgets are squeezed as tightly as they can be, and that’s a big chunk of ever reducing profits. maybe a crystal ball would be more accurate!
Too bad there are no other towns close by where I can get a bite to eat.
Too bad there are no stores or shopping malls in Bergen county or other nearby counties (or even over the border in the Palisades) where I can shop..
Too bad I can’t shop online from the comfort of my home and have the goods delivered to my doorstep.
Too bad the residents of Ridgewood are not fiscally astute and can’t figure out the value of shopping in one place vs another.
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Yes. It is too bad that Ridgewood has a monopoly on shopping and dining and we must pay whatever they demand since there are no alternatives and we are just too unsophisticated to figure out how to dine and shop elsewhere where we can pay less while being treated better.
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Perhaps the CBD and the VC can adopt the Ridgewood school system’s motto… “A TRADITION of excellence” (long gone).
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The dollar for a cup of coffee is a perfect example of a killing a simple pleasure.
I’m not getting coffee (Bulldog), a bagel (Bagelicious) or chinese takeout (Asian Grill) in Ridgewood if this goes into effect.
I can get all of of these in Glen Rock, Paramus or HHK. Why pay the added penalty that our foolish gov’t thinks will make everything better.
I can still pick up greek food if I pull up in front and have someone run in…….scratch that, they can”t get out of the car due to some ugly wall that was erected there.
If the village ever Lose all these restaurants there doomed
A chalk stick and enforcement of a 3 hour limit with a stiff fine would prevent employees from taking up the CBD spaces…
Problem solved.
I remember years ago when they had just such a stick. Basically it worked as we kept getting employees parking way down on S. Broad where we were located. However, some employees merely went to their car and moved it back and forth (if room was available) or simply drove around the block and retook the parking space. Others actually had a wet cloth which they used to clean their tires of the chalk marks. But it did prevent some employee parking and the ticket givers soon saw the same car in the same spaces over a period of days and were able to handle it that way. However, a certain store in town always had their store- named truck parked in the same place right in front of their business. Even then, if you had pull (and it wasn’t Paul V) you managed to avoid the laws.
How is it that Glen Rock has free on-street parking and free parking for 3 hours in the shoppers’ parking lot, while Ridgewood now wants to increase the price of parking yet again? Ridgewood charges for parking, and it has a bigger parking problem than does Glen Rock, even though construction has limited parking in their shoppers’ lot.
Is the Village Ridgewood guilty of charging what they think the market will bear rather than what is reasonable and normal?
This long time Ridgewood resident now utilizes Ridgewood’s CBD less than ever before, and upcoming changes will only limit my use of the CBD even more.
Based on posts here and conversations with friends and neighbors, my family and I am not alone in this trend.
What does the VC and Mayor plan
for 2018 commuter parking passes
after they skyrocked them for 2017
This will tell us alot about the VC attitude ( soak them dry ) towards village commuter taxpayers ..