Ridgewood gets ideas for using 7-acre tract it bought for $2.7 million
Monday, December 9, 2013
BY CHRIS HARRIS
STAFF WRITER
The Record
RIDGEWOOD – When the village council sought input from residents about future uses of the Schedler property, 7 wooded acres along Route 17, they got a range of possibilities from a multipurpose field to nature trails to a short golf course.
And one option from people who live near the tract and fear an incursion of new traffic: Leave it as it is.
Mayor Paul Aronsohn said that residents living near the property should have a say in what becomes of the land but that efforts should be made to try to appease all segments of the community.
“This is an opportunity to do something special with this property,” Aronsohn said.
The thickly wooded property was bought by the village for $2.7 million using a grant specified for active recreation.
This reporter must have been at another meeting or busy inhaling fumes from route 17. No presentations about golf or baseball offered. The presentations were to save the house, property and surrounding neighborhood home values. A realtor speaking on devaluation of properties was most effective regarding devaluation of hundreds of homes by clearing of trees and full exposure to route 17. Leave the property as is or maybe add some nice natural walking paths. Any recreation field on this property is a bad idea all around.
A golf course??? It would never fit first of all and the cost of broken windshields on Rt 17 would be a problem although if you are looking for increasing maintenance costs, it would be your answer.
Leave it as a passive park, no ball fields or a idiotic golf course.
OR HO– USE
Well whats the ” The Gang of Three” going to do now. they promised the Sports People and the promised the Schedle People.