June 19,2016
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, Public Hearing on Housing Element of the Village Master Plan, and the World Mission Society, Church of God will be the focus of the June 21st ,Ridgewood Planning Board meeting.
PLANNING BOARD PUBLIC MEETING NOTICE/AGENDA
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Village Hall Court Room– 7:30 P.M.
(all timeframes and the order of agenda items below are approximate and subject to change)
7:30 p.m. – Call to Order, Statement of Compliance, Flag Salute, Roll Call – In accordance with the provisions of Section 10:4-8d of the Open Public Meetings Act, the date, location, and time of the commencement of this meeting is reflected in a meeting notice, a copy of which schedule has been filed with the Village Manager and the Village Clerk, The Ridgewood News and The Record newspapers, and posted on the bulletin board in the entry lobby of the Village municipal offices at 131 North Maple Avenue, and on the Village website, all in accordance with the provisions of the Open Public Meetings Act.
Roll call: Aronsohn, Bigos, Knudsen, Nalbantian, Joel, Reilly, Dockray, Thurston, Altano, Abdalla, Patire
7:35 p.m. – 7:45 p.m. – Public Comments on Topics not Pending Before the Board
7:45 p.m. – 7:55 p.m. – Committee/Commission/Professional Updates for Non Agenda Topics, Correspondence Received by the Board
7:55 p.m. – 8:15 p.m. – World Mission Society, Church of God
8:15 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. – Public Hearing on Housing Element of the Village Master Plan
10:30 p.m. – 10:40 p.m. – Adoption of Minutes: July 7, 2015
10:40 p.m. – Executive Session (if needed)
Adjournment
In accordance with the Open Public Meetings Act, all meetings of the Ridgewood Planning Board (i.e., official public meetings, work sessions, pre-meeting assemblies and special meetings) are public meetings, which are always open to members of the general public.
Members: Mayor Paul Aronsohn, Nancy Bigos, Councilwoman Susan Knudsen, Charles Nalbantian, Richard Joel, Kevin Reilly, Wendy Dockray, David Thurston, Isabella Altano, Khidir Abdalla, Debbie Patire
Professional Staff: Blais L. Brancheau, Planner; Gail L. Price, Esq., Board Attorney; Christopher J. Rutishauser, Village Engineer; Michael Cafarelli, Board Secretary
Condos on Route 17?
6-8 per acre is not high density.
what does this mean exactly? what is the discussion going to address?
Construction and increased traffic at the former site of the Christian Science church would be a disaster on little Godwin Avenue, increasingly the backbone of east-west traffic. It’s already tied up with the light at Lincoln and the “calming lanes” at the Franklin Ave. underpass–which one hopes the new council will remove asap, replacing the wider divider with the previous width (or less) and reverting to two lanes in both directions. Since the thing went up I have never, as in zero times, seen a bicyclist risking his or her life by riding through there. It just confuses people. And while we’re at it, let’s get rid of that stupid Have A Nice Day (“HAND”?) flashing sign, a major hazard, a hideous, distracting piece of garbage, a waste of money, and entirely unnecessary.
The bike lanes in this area are a total waste, as for the electronic sign if they fire our current village manager maybe they can give her this $13,000 fiasco as a going away gift.
What is going on with the World Mission Society? Why on the agenda?
world domination
The church has a big piece of property. Mainstream Christians in Ridgewood disapprove of their faith.
One faith is as good as another.
Who ever thought of the road as “little Godwin Avenue”?
They want to BUILD, BUILD, BUILD. Please, please, Planning Board, say NOOOOOOOOOO.
Who wants to build? Usually these items get slipped into the late summer agendas, when everyone is away on vacation. Now its the same night as the ballot? What is going on with World Mission Society? They’ve already been in violation of dozens of local laws, with the village looking the other way. Is that why they are on this agenda?