the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Upper Saddle River NJ, a two-year simmering dispute over building violations and the size and scale of several Jewish facilities under construction on its northern border has finally generated a public pledge to pursue remedies from the Upper Saddle River Mayor Arman Fardanesh and Upper Saddle River council at Thursday’s meeting.
The dispute primarily concerns the clearing of a 19-acre wooded site for an orthodox Jewish cemetery recently opened at 44 Hillside Ave. in Airmont, New York, and the construction of a 18,520-square-foot mikvah or ritual Jewish bath facility on 3.7 acres across the street from the cemetery at 79 Hillside Ave. in Ramapo, New York.
Both facilities have been cited by the New York Department of Environmental Conservation for failure to engage in runoff containment practices during construction.
Concerns have grown more intense after allegations of insufficient on-site parking for the cemetery, which would force cars onto the shoulders of narrow Hillside Avenue, and funneling traffic onto Upper Saddle River side streets. Officials are also charging that the builder has reneged on a pledge to arrange for a water connection with Veolia (formerly Suez) and is now planning to install three wells to service the building, with discharge site in question.
Time to sell, it’s going to hurt, resale value. And it has nothing to do with religion, people just don’t want a big building there with parking lot constant traffic they like the woods.
10% drop in price
When you live on a border of a town or a state, you have no say in the process.
A local example is a commercial establishment in midland park on the ridgewood border, using ridgewood streets to park their cars all day and a dumpster one foot from the street. SInce the dumpster is apparently in midland park… its ”tough shit ridgewood you gotta look at it”.
A solution is to make the adjacent streets ”no parking”’in ridgewood and allow the midland park business to clog the midland park streets
where is that?
w glen and erie