Bergen County Freeholder John Mitchell at the Schedler property
Ridgewood purchases final piece of land to merge with Schedler plot
TUESDAY JULY 30, 2013, 9:22 AM
BY DARIUS AMOS
STAFF WRITER
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
The village has officially acquired a final plot of wooded land sandwiched between Route 17 and West Saddle River Road, essentially completing the deliberate process to merge it with the former Schedler tract.
Ridgewood Council members formally approved the purchase of the .358-acre site last Wednesday, authorizing a payment of $90,000 to General Energy Transport and Terminal Yards, a Midland Park-based operation. The company is a subsidiary of Shotmeyer Bros. Fuel Company.
Based on the 2013 village-wide reassessment, the current assessed value of the triangular-shaped parcel is $54,000. Assessment figures can be accessed through Ridgewood’s municipal website.
Why would we pay $36,000 over the assessment?? This property is useless.The whole schedler property is useless as a park. The noise from Route 17 overwhelming. A noise barrier will have to be built in order to make this “park” user friendly.
We paid more than we should have because the people who run this town don’t have big balls.
And they do not have any money for this.
baseballs flying onto the highway, kids trying to cross at franklin tpke / west saddle river road, cars crashing pulling in and pulling out onto the highway, sounds like a good place for ball fields
Why would we pay $36,000 over assessment? Are you serious? Assessed value and market value are two completely different ammounts. Would you sell your house for assessed value? I know I wouldn’t.
LIGHTS and TURF. Lets get it done. There are not enough field in town for all the kids to play. What are we waiting for? Are we afraid of some ” Not in my back yard” people across the highway who always cry that they are the forgotten part of town . PLEASE !