Ridgewood NJ, The meeting got off to a poor start as the PB chairman announced to the crowd they would be going into closed session before public comment! Thankfully the people waited to be heard and they were back out in about 50 minutes.The speakers were great. Their statements were diverse, intelligent and heartfelt. It is hard to imagine what the counter argument could be though we know there is one.
There were about 30 speakers at the PB meeting. It was good to see that we are not just a small vocal group. They are allowing more public comments tomorrow. Please come to the next PB meeting and let them know what you think. It’s at 7:30 in the Town Hall
The Valley mediation proceedings resulted in a win for Valley and nothing for Ridgewood except how they will mitigate the damages.
The Valley expansion is too big for the 15 acres it sits on and too big for the neighborhood even if there wasn’t a school adjacent to it.
Ridgewood needs our planning board and council to look out for the village and it’s residents.
Valley will continue to thrive and grow. They have purchased numerous properties for off site facilities and can certainly modernize the Ridgewood location and not destroy the Master Plan in doing so.
Valley is a business first and foremost. They do not pay taxes, do minimal charity work and pay their execs millions.
As any time they can be acquired/sold to a large hospital system, making the execs even more money.
This expansion is an attempt to polish their brand, nice hospital in upscale setting. Who wouldn’t want to go there for elective surgery? They compete against hospitals in Bergen, Pasaic, Rockland, Westchester and Dutchess counties. The judge sais that he was looking out for the needs of the region not just the neighbors.
Valley is not our friend.
Vicious and vindictive…
Good lord will you people ever give up?
It’s a done deal. No matter how much you whine about what’s transpired it finished…
Everyone knew that once this thing was presented to a neutral third party for review ( A judge who is a she rather than a he) it was going to go in favor of the hospital. And rightfully so. It’s not all about YOU. It’s about building a hospital that is sorely needed for the GREATER GOOD of all the residents in the surrounding towns. You should have bought your home in Ho Ho Kus or Saddle River, not on top of A VERY LARGE MULTI YEAR EXISTING HOSPITAL.
If “the need for the region” is so great, why the hell is it not better to relocate it to an area closer to 17 in Paramus or Mahwah ? Why keep it enclosed in a residential neighborhood in Ridgewood ?
A friend suggested the old IBM complex on parsons pond road in Franklin lakes would be ideal .
Of course then all of the newbies in town would want the acreage of the current valley turned into soccer fields .
Id like to see large single family homes that paid lots of property taxes.
Because that’s where Valley is 2:02…And has been since 1952. What difference does it make moving the well established campus 1/2 west on Linwood Avenue? Mahwah? Why the hell would we want it up there??? Listen, Just because you bought a home in the lap of the hospital and now your in a tizzy because the inevitable that was bound to happen is now happening just doesn’t cut. The hospital was a part of this community long before you got here. It belongs in Ridgewood and here it will stay…For many many years to come.
6:08 Because they have more space to become competitive with Hackensack, that’s why. I don’t live near the hospital but I’m smart enough to know that once this thing gets done(you hope) the overall impact on that neighborhood, and Ridgewood, will be a negative. It hasn’t worked in Morristown, Paterson, or Hackensack, so why the hell would it work here ?
6.08. Spoken like someone up on a hill looking down on the situation.these are our neighbors..we are in this together..kids will be hurt by this build out decade as well..lets help each other for a change…
Perhaps valley should move and allow the court ordered COAH housing to be built on that site. I believe Ridgewood is ordered to have app 350 of these units. I suggest they be built on the horse farm, schendlier field, and valley locations. This would allow the village to meet its court ordered housing obligations and satisfy many on these blogs who do not want ball fields or hospitals.
Very strange dynamics around these issues, but perhaps this would be best for all involved.
Here… Fixed that fer ya…
Good lord will you people ever give up?
It’s a done deal. Ridgewood is done. No matter how much you whine about what’s transpired it finished…
10.53 please return to junior high for further civic development