Ridgewood, Bergen County moving on plans for parking garage
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2014 LAST UPDATED: WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 26, 2014, 10:33 PM
BY CHRIS HARRIS
STAFF WRITER
RIDGEWOOD — Village and county officials have been meeting on a parking garage partnership since late 2013, and have agreed that a parking study should be conducted to determine just how big that garage should be.
The Bergen County Improvement Authority would commission the study, which would take a few months to complete, Mayor Paul Aronsohn said. The authority will meet in the next week or two to discuss the study.
The results of the study, which will determine the village’s overall parking needs, also will dictate how many spots the new garage facility will eventually have and what rates will be charged to customers.
“We’re all on the same page, and the county executive is also into the idea,” Aronsohn said, adding that the parking study will be “comprehensive,” with results reviewable sometime this summer.
The Bergen County Improvement Authority will cover most of the costs of the study, but the design of the garage will be mutually determined by both the village and the county, Aronsohn said.
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I hope to see a finalized plan that will be acceptable by all Village Council and residents with known leadership qualities.
Thanks.
Who will bear the costs of building, running, and maintaining this parking garage?
Why is the county involved in this?
a nice empty albatross
take the village down one more notch
nice going guys.
when do we change the name from “village” to “city” ?
Great! Another study on the parking problem in Ridgewood. How cutting edge. Didn’t the Ridgewood News find an article from the 30’s or 40’s talking about the parking problem in Ridgewood? Why don’t we just dust off one of the dozens of previous studies, talk about it at a couple of Council meetings, put it away and wait another few years for another Council to do the same thing all over again. I smell a “Groundhog Day” movie script here somewhere.
Do we still have the funds from the previous Municipal bond issue that was earmarked to pay for the last parking garage plan ?
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.
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.
Sounds like we are back to square one. History just keeps repeating itself.
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
hey it’s old style.
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.
This must be incorrect. 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.
Waste of time and money, keep the county out.
On the RFP for long term ground lease for the GAP Parking lot. Why in the world would we land lease a 30 space parking lot thats always full to finance a parking garage in another location in the CBD?
Its a good thing this council isnt building rockets.
#15 The reason we are building in another location is because the friend of the Mayor own building and businesses close the Hudson st lot. Who is going to park their car in that location and walk all the way down ERA to shop.