MAY 19, 2015 LAST UPDATED: TUESDAY, MAY 19, 2015, 9:57 AM
BY MARK KRULISH
STAFF WRITER |
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
Village officials brought forward a new solution to the parking problems on Corella Court through an ordinance that was introduced at last week’s council meeting.
The proposed ordinance prohibits parking on a portion of the north side of Corella Court and establishes a stop sign on the east side, but the cul-de-sac itself will remain open. The ordinance is a response to an influx of cars on the street, which has been causing what Village Manager Roberta Sonenfeld described as “a serious situation.”
Cars lining Corella Court throughout the day have been causing havoc for regular village functions such as sanitation and leaf pickup, where vehicles could not properly navigate the road due to a lack of room, the village manager said.
An ordinance limiting parking on Corella Court to two hours was introduced on April 8, but several residents from nearby Stevens Avenue came forward with concerns that the time limit would simply push Corella Court’s problem out onto their street.
Those members of the public also noted that the recent addition built on to the nearby Hawes Elementary School had taken away parking spaces, which in turn caused staff members to park on Corella.
https://www.northjersey.com/news/council-trying-out-solutions-for-street-1.1337629
Simple solution–open 1 side of Brookside for parking during the day. It is a double wide street that would be completely unaffected by having cars on 1 side of the street. To allow for leaf pickup etc. you could make it alternate side parking regulations.
This problem is almost 5 years old.
How can you expand at the school (Hawes) and eliminate parking spaces and not figure out what the impact would be..?
Same thing was done at Ridge and the result is chaos every day.
Brookside is not near Hawes.
Anon – Brookside is for the Travel issue, Corolla is for the Hawes problem…
Simple solution=park the car and walk your lazy fat ass to the school if you don’t trust your kid.
Time to get a shuttle…park at Graydon and hire 2 jitney drivers to hit the various schools, one for the east side and one for the west side.
Totally agree with12:34.
Totally agree with12:27. Time for people to learn how to walk.
it’s a common problem.. the board of education does what ever it wants and leaves the mess up to the village to correct. Something’s don’t change
BTW, why is Clinton (Ridge) closed during the ENTIRE school day and not just when school lets in and out?
Good question 4:09
These people got a private road and they also made sure it stays that way since the council over-road the village engineer, police chief, and no road standards by refusing to install sidewalks.
I have a better idea. Since the road is closed , without sidewalks, let’s have angle parking there all day!!!
Uhmmmm . . . .Brookside is across from the high school not near Hawes OR Travell.
There is plenty of free parking for high school students at Vets. They are just too lazy to use it.
Most of the drivers drive because they want to. Most do not have after school jobs, they just like driving at lunch and during frees. If you saw your kids driving around the school you would take the keys away.
First world problems.