>Ridgewood council votes to demolish home at Habernickel Family Park
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2011
BY KELLY EBBELS
STAFF WRITER
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
Village Council members agree that the prominent house at the Habernickel Family Park should be demolished.
The decision was unanimous at Wednesday’s council meeting, despite a request from Village Manager Ken Gabbert to spare the house and convert it into meeting rooms, given the space crunch the village is facing.
Funds from a Bergen County Open Space grant received for the development of the Habernickel property can help pay for the demolition, Gabbert said, and the council decided to go ahead with previous plans. Demolition had always been part of the “phase II” portion of Habernickel’s development plan, and council members explained that they would rather see the village go ahead with fully utilizing the park as green space than keep the house for rental property or meeting space.
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