>An item on this week’s Village Council Work Session agenda was discussion of whether the Village should purchase approximately 4 acres of vacant property at the intersection of Route 17 & West Saddle River Road. If purchased by Village officials, the property would most likely be cleared to facilitate construction of several athletic playing fields.
Total post-revaluation assessment value for the 4 acres is $2.6 million; the availability of grant funds to assist with the purchase is unknown at this time.
Council members directed Village Manager Jim Ten Hoeve to ask Village Planner Blais Brancheau for a memo detailing all suitable uses for the property, which is now zoned as residential. Further discussion on the topic was shelved pending arrival of Brancheau’s memo.