Out of 70 Town in Bergen Count. They are going to come here and help us with our garage. You asked the county to fix a road or line stripe one of their roads and it falls on deaf ears but all of a sudden they are going to do this for us. Whats in it for them or is this Council going to sell us down the drain to further the agenda
If it made financial sense to build a parking garage…..it would have been built long ago.
BUT….if you can get your buddies at the BCIA (that independent authority that gets to borrow millions and millions and millions of dollars) to do a study, and to pay for it, and that you will have some influence in it’s results, then you do it.
The Republican County Exe. Donovan stated she would not issue bonds through the BCIA, now she wants to use tax dollars to do just that. Also Glen Rock School Board, refused to use the BCIA because of their high fees
I’ll believe it when I see it. The plain and simple truth is there’s no need for a parking garage in Ridgewood. It simply can’t be cost justified. If they build it, people will NOT come because it will be too expensive to park in.
Here’s a simple idea that costs no money. Free up parking spaces in the downtown district by having your employees park a couple of blocks away and walk to work.
There you go…..I’ll give you that advice for free.
I would think the powers that be would concentrate on getting the stores filled and operational before they build a garage to house the customers that aren’t there yet.
the employees are too lazy to walk an extra block.
Just say NO!
If you listen closely to our Mayor when explained this plan at the last Council Meeting. I believe he said that on street parking rate may have to be adjusted so the new parking garage will be used. That’s going to make more shoppers come to Ridgewood? Just another political boondoggle. Just what we need is to get in bed with the county . If its to good to be true then it isn’t.
#3, a very smart poster described that exact scenario a few weeks back. His name was Rob, I think. It’s supply and demand 101: if the cost of the deck dictates that parking has to cost $5 / hr to be economically viable, they will build it anyway because [insert long description of good old boy politics and business deals here]. The deck will sit empty while people circle the block to find street parking, because it’s cheaper. The deck will be deep in the red, and in a scramble to wipe the egg off their faces, the people who pushed for the deck will use their political influence to raise street parking to be on par with the cost of parking in the deck.
We all lose. Well, not me, because I can walk to town, and that was by design. But in general, everyone gets screwed except for a Sanzari or whatever construction company gets the no bid contract to build the thing.
hey the village needs it.
The Village needs a parking garage like we need another term of Aronsohn in office. NO!
This garage must be built to satisfied the excessive housing that is planned in the CBD. These two project go hand and hand. The Mayor is try to make it look like two separate project but they are not. Just think about it. When the planning board questions the builders about overflow parking that will be create by their project they will simple say that any overflow parking will be handled by the new parking garage. This project is not about reviving the businesses downtown. If that was the case they would not be talking about jacking up the rates for on street parking.