Ridgewood residents offer ideas on how to develop Schedler property
Wednesday April 25, 2012, 3:49 PM
BY JOSEPH CRAMER
CORRESPONDENT
The Ridgewood News
While a consensus as to the makeup of an eventual open recreational area at the Schedler property is still far off, members of the Ridgewood Open Space Committee recently obtained a clearer sense of what residents want – and do not want – out of a potential park on the land.
Last week, the committee hosted the first of a series of public forums designed to gather comments and suggestions from residents and civic groups as to what the village should eventually do with the currently dormant Schedler plot, a 7-acre parcel of wooded land located between Route 17 northbound and West Saddle River Road.
Leave the property as a wooded park.
Has an archaeological survey ever been conducted on the site? The area was quite active during the Revolutionary War.
Why does every park need a sports field? It will be cheaper and easier to have a park for families.
We don’t need any more baseball fields. No one’s children are deprived.