Ridgewood housing hearings to continue as planned
OCTOBER 9, 2014 LAST UPDATED: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2014, 5:06 PM
BY LAURA HERZOG
STAFF WRITER
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
Planning Board hearings on multifamily housing will continue moving forward as they have been.
The board announced on Tuesday that it would not be taking the mayor’s suggestion to bifurcate a proposed amendment that would allow for multifamily housing in four downtown zones.
Creating multiple amendments out of the one currently proposed amendment – to allow the board to vote to approve or reject multifamily housing in some but not necessarily all zones – is not totally off the table, but the idea is set aside, since it could have rendered some already-delivered testimony unusable.
The board will again consider amendment modifications, like bifurcation and other ways to split the amendment, once the current process comes to a close, following the village planner’s testimony at the next hearing.
The suggestion that the Planning Board should split the amendment into two – one that would consider housing in the Central Business District’s (CBD) “core” (East Ridgewood Avenue and Franklin Avenue) and another that would consider housing in the CBD’s “periphery” (south of East Ridgewood Avenue and north of Franklin Avenue) – was raised by Mayor Paul Aronsohn at a board meeting last month.
Aronsohn also suggested that the board reduce the proposed allowable density.
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