I have loved the suburbs all my life. Very sad to watch them go. It hurts.What the hell is happening?
I could finally afford to move into a great suburb and now I hear that Glen Rock, Ridgewood, HHK are all building low income high density housing. What is the point of this? Why is this happening?
ummm to comply with state law? This is exactly why those with foresight wanted Ridgewood to get ahead of the curve.
News 12 N.J just reported that N.J tops the list of the most people moving out of the state. N.J had been at the top or near the top for the lest 5 years. So why do we need all these apartments? Just saying.
More like a state-mandated boondoggle to force over-development. Foresight has nothing to do with having ultra-high-density, low-income housing foist upon the village. Foresight would be that we’re already overbuilt and need to stop. Funny that COAH and Green Acres are on opposing sides but both entities of the State.
I will never understand these laws. What is the point of mixing low income families which probably are on welfare with families that work their butt off. People who work hard have a certain standard of living and tend to live in areas with similar standards. These standards will be hurt if more and more non working/low income people are shoved up to our towns.
I guess this is another liberal theory and we are at their mercy.
Taxes Levies Fees of all types and Stripes chase the Boomers out with suitcases of cash .Boomer were taught by the market crashes
1987/1991/1998/2001/2007 etc to never get left holding the Bag… Kids out of Schools, college Bills in some cases ,interest rates rising..
towns tone deaf to most reasonable compromise. .Families with loads of Kids will be sucking the life out of School budgets…KinderCare etc
I’m not lining up for “un”affordable housing. But if you are going to build affordable housing, build it in northwest Bergen County. – The Most Interesting Man
Let your council know you are not happy. There is a lawsuit in town to stop the housing debacle. Let the council know it is intolerable that the Village does not settle that lawsuit and get rid of the massive housing plans. If those plans are not stopped, we will soon have hundreds of apartments being constructed followed by thousands more as the developers take over the town.
Sp, urge the council to do something and now.
‘Progressive’ activists want to spread the urban decay across suburbs. Builders are in it to make a quick buck. Quite a lethal combination.
Unfortunately, a lot of people (not a majority in Ridgewood) will vote straight ticket progressive because they want Planned Parenthood to continue getting tax payer funds, or something of that sort.
9:18 is right..what’s even scarier is the need to have to let VC know of our strong objection against builders build a run tactics ..everyone get thes payoff on rental and condo bulbous but we the taxpayers are constantly left holding the bag on services Tax Increases for Valet kinderCare and any other nice to have other people pay for pension liabilities .Things have to change folks and if the VC has to be reminded of this we have Elected another wrong group of taxpayer advocates after a horrible group that was thrown out of office for a multitude of horrible agendas ..garagezilla etc..We still have a chance to turn many of these issues around if we get ready to fight for the well known and citizen supported position that we don’t want Ridgewood turned into Hackensack,Englewood,Morristown or any other wannaBee modern tax and spend then run away village.People have choices as to where to live.We have invested too much to not carry on the fight against overdevelopment and overspending and tax hikes.