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Special Election Scheduled for June 21st to Decide Fate of Hudson Garage in Ridgewood

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photo also courtesy of Saurabh Dani

April 30,2016

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Ridgewood NJ , A special election will be held in June on the size of a proposed multi-level parking garage in Ridgewood on Hudson street. The June 21 was chosen because it falls within a date range officials were required to hold a special election.

Saurabh Dani is a Village resident who worked on the “its2Big ” petition and he used the Facebook group “it takes a Villlage to answer some questions about the garage referendum .
Saurabh Dani ,”The issue of 4 story vs 5 story will be decided by the residents. I have no idea why some candidates are claiming that they will be able to over turn that vote. Whatever is the outcome of that vote, the candidates should pledge to support that outcome, instead of signing the pledge for a specific plan.”

Dani goes on ,”My guess – some of them want to distract the residents from real issues – i.e. Valley, conflict of interest, High density housing, and lack of comprehensive master plan.”

Saurabh Dani , “the council had 20 days to act from yesterday (April 27th), as per their bond attorney. They could have easily waited until May 11th to make a decision. Depending on the outcome of the election on May 10th, they could have decided if a special election is really needed. They just wanted to cause a distraction and make a big deal out of special election, so they went ahead on the day of certification to call for a special election on June 21. The mayor had press release ready to circulate when he came for the meeting, while the village clerk had not even announced the results of the certification.”

9 thoughts on “Special Election Scheduled for June 21st to Decide Fate of Hudson Garage in Ridgewood

  1. will i be able to vote for NO GARAGE on Hudson street?
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    addl parking should be placed closer to the center of the CBD if built at all. Spread out two or three 1 story parking decks over existing parking lots.

  2. If it is true that the council had 20 days to decide on special election and they could have waited until May 11th, then they are the most irresponsible council members on our village.
    What do they gain with this?
    If the referendum is voted down, then they loose.
    If the referendum is voted yes, the new council can still decide to only build a 4 level garage.
    The council removed the text of “4 level 5 story from the referendum question”. The vote will not bind the new council for a 5 story garage. So they have gained NOTHING by expediting this election. It’s just serving their egos and costing the tax payers 45K.

  3. If they did not go out of their way to confuse voters on the first vote this would not be necesary.

    Gwenn and Roberta were on Facebook telling residents that the size would be determined with resident input.

    They limited input to their predetermined sizes. They did not listen to residents.

  4. 10:12. The village cannot afford three garages

  5. These current politicians are creeps

  6. Look at the conditions of the current Surface lots , all mis managed and neglected ,in terms of maintenance and upkeep.why do we think anything would change if we build Garagezilla..?

  7. Bingo at 10:47. They thought they were being crafty and instead changed the whole referendum question…

  8. Gwenn told someone at the train station last November JUST VOTE YES AND WE WILL WORRY ABOUT THE DETAILS LATER. Yes, this is true, it was bullying and it was dishonest. The resident came to a meeting and stated this.

  9. 1:33pm. I have screen grabs of Gwenn and Roberta’s messages on Facebook claiming that the design is not final before the Nov vote. Yet Roberta issued orders to the architect to start construction documents for Plan A. – It costed tax payers 122K in change orders.

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