The Ridgewood garage is the Trojan Horse

June 18,2016

the staff of the Ridgewood blog

Ridgewood NJ, The village, in the voice of the Village Manager, admits on April 6, 2016 that we do not have a parking crisis, we have a parking surplus, we have more spots than we have demand for:https://youtu.be/iyufI5C3gKU?t=1h14m So we know from the facts the big garage is all about high density housing, not restaurants. Without it, the over development of Ridgewood cannot happen. Without over development the property owners, who paid a lot for the land, cannot make money. They need to develop the lots past what parking on the property supports to maximize rental revenue. The village and the developers lie about Brogan and Ken Smith parking spaces needing to be replaced, spots that are not a part of the public parking inventory.

The garage is the Trojan Horse. The village now admits, we don’t need more parking, we don’t even utilize what we have. Higher density, higher congestion, higher fees. They want a city.

When the village manager in a propaganda video says we have a parking crisis, but her own analysis says we have a surplus, we know there is no crisis.