Offer developers incentives to build public parking
Editor, The Ridgewood Blog:
I get frustrated beyond belief whenever any member of the Village Council mentions all of the public parking spaces that will be permanently “lost” when the Brogan and Ken Smith properties are both fully developed (portions of both properties are now configured as surface parking lots and provide public parking to commuters and/or employees of CBD located businesses).
Yes; parking spaces will be lost during construction, but they don’t necessarily have to be lost permanently if someone on the Village Council would heed to my suggestion of offering incentives, in the form of tax abatements, exemptions, or reductions, to any developers who incorporate a public parking component into their development plans.
Believe me, if it were financially advantageous for a developer to incorporate a public parking deck/garage into their plans, they would rush to do so in a flash. Money talks, nobody walks.
So let’s get with it Village Council members – how about picking up the phone today and calling J. T. Bolger, Ned Cancelmo, John Saraceno, and Mike Smith to see what they have to say?
Boyd A. Loving
Ridgewood resident
That may give them too much input and control.
it’s interesting that the existing apartments all have a shortage of parking and the developers keep insisting that there will only be one car per household in the proposed developments. how is this possible.
we don’t need a big garage, hence we do not need to incentivize developers
12:03 Is exactly correct. The developers are deliberately going to exacerbate the parking problem with there one car per unit plans. Why should my taxes go to pay them to put in parking?
11 spaces available at around 2:20 pm on Saturday, during Ridgewood Sale Days, on E. Ridgewood Ave. from Maple Ave. to Broad St. And you need a $10 million dollar plus garage ?
I was at Garden city Li during a business day morning time period
Two hours free parking move it or ticket no meters
Booming downtown like ridgewood .LIE TRAIN RIGHT THERE.
COMMUTER PARKING IS PERMIT ONLY
Ridgewood sale days under attack by aggressive parking police .witnessed this last Friday at 12 15 aside the book store cottage place.
Merchants should look into this interms of a ticket amnesty for mid day to
6 pm for special Ridgewood sale days .try to get over ourselves RIDGEWOOD good will be remembered forever…parking tickets on sale days guarantee no repeat visit by that out of Towner…why would they come back..give them a thank you for coming flyer waiver reminder if the
Meters can’t be waived
Here we go again folks..strap in….its the Valley vs Parking Garage squads
Competing for what’ they want and are willing to test our wills with these initiatives again..likely they will throw a mountain of cash at the effort to try to wear us down..thinking we got lucky last go and we might roll over due to issue fatigue disease..
Let the Chamber pay for the meters 8:58.
“last go”–are we British?