
Now if only the builders would stop threatening lawsuits every time they fear they won’t get their way…
Notice that John Saraceno took a full page ad in last Friday’s Ridgewood News essentially threatening to sue us if he doesn’t get his way. This is going to end up in court one way or another. What a failure of leadership by our Council majority. The only reason that they “did the right thing” was that they were getting shouted down by hundreds of people vowing to vote them out of office if they didn’t listen.
I thought that the full page threat from “The Enclave” was over the top.Coward who paid for it did not ise his name. Threat came from a yet-to-be-built complex.Warning the town that if they don’t get their way there will be hell to pay. Yea, this is going to court.
John Saraceno took a page from Valley Hospital play book. It almost seems that John Saraceno is the puppet master for the 3 Amigos.
Strikes me that the courts are part of the problem with the so called builders remedy. I believe most people in town have no problem with the housing just the density and 35 units per acre is too much.
Built-up municipalities like Ridgewood cannot legitimately be said to be required to build “up” to fulfill so-called affordable housing obligations. This will not prevent builders from bringing lawsuits against Ridgewood claiming that municipalities like ours are in fact legally required to accept their plans to build ultra-high density apartment buildings. Moreover, this will not prevent people who should know better, like village attorney Matt Rogers, from falling prey to such reasoning and weakly fainting away from the fight to defend Ridgewood’s civic integrity, notably embodied by our Master Plan, which was never intended to partake of such fluidity and changeability.
That is to say, “built-out municipalities” (auto-correct strikes again). Ridgewood’s unused acreage is scarce and scattered, unfit for future residential use, and builders know this. The vast majority of residential property is already irreversibly occupied by detached single-family houses (5,000 plus units or so).
Fix the master plan
Were we theeatened by a large building or a little man who wants his way?
Saraceno go home, and I don’t mean Ridgewood. You are now a public scourge and disgusting.
I wonder if Mr. Saraceno, and his mouthpiece Ron Simoncini, would be surprised to know I’ve read through their website many times and I’m still think that the Enclave is not a good thing for Ridgewood (it’s ugly to start with but I digress). Mr. Saraceno, you are a newcomer. Please don’t attempt to tell me what is it and isn’t about Ridgewood that I love. I have been here a ver long time and I’ve seen a lot of conflict and debate but we’ve always come through it and maintained our lovely Village. But you and your proposal are different …you are the one who has not compromised, you are the one leveling threats. Perhaps it is time for you to pack up and leave the rest of us alone.
Bet he moved here just to get these projects through and say he was a fellow resident. Once they’re built he will vamoose to Boca.
“Saraceno go home, and I don’t mean Ridgewood. You are now a public scourge and disgusting” . . . . and take Simoncini with you.
Need to stop the garage if we want to stop the building. Once the first disaster gets approved, the rest will follow.
Urge everyone you know to vote against the garage-mahala.
That Ridgewood News ad was pretty obnoxious.