Ridgewood NJ, The Village Council is well aware that there is ample parking in town and they are simply trying to redistribute the cars. This is a sensible solution instead of putting up an unneeded, unsightly, unwanted and unaffordable parking garage.
The plan to get CBD employees away from the “prime spots” up near the restaurants is a great one. However, it does seem that there might be too many CBD-Employees spots set aside, based on these photos. There was a ton of empty spaces for them Monday mid-morning and again mid-afternoon. Perhaps the number will need to be reduced. There was also ample parking available in the lots as well as on street for shoppers and diners.
Kudos to the VC for working toward resolving this. I am confident that they will be monitoring the ebb and flow of open parking spaces in the weeks ahead, and probably adjusting things as needed. But it is more and more obvious that a massive garage is not needed and it never was.
Yes, I agree this is a step in the right direction. Trying to find alternatives to a massive garage is what we voted them into office for. I am sick of hearing all these complaints about the direction in which mayor Knudsen is leading us. This whole outcry seems to be a Rurik hallaby inspired group whine. No solution to parking is ever going to be easy or convienent for all. But lets think rationally here and not spew complaints out about the Mayor and new council members.
Habits are hard to change.walk the main Cbd Ridgewood avenue around
930 TO 10 am.you will see many in street parking spaces reading texts and waiting to feed quarters into those meters or activate Parkmobile .
The quarter feeders mployees run out to feed meters as an old habit.
Will a store clerk convert to employee pass at 80 a month or convert to
Using the employee lots to free up street spaces for their customers
Later on I the day.Saturdays are Peak and the employees might be open to buying a pass if they see the value of a confirmed weekend spot as a bonus .Are their bosses pushing them on use of a employee pass possibly
Via some subsidy towards that longer term Pass.Sat is where money is lost or gained traffic demand wise
I continue to believe that Mayor Knudsen, Deputy Mayor Sedon and Councilman Hache are decent, reasonable people who want to do what is right for the village. Here is my appeal to them.
Please do not assume that the few loudest and most frequent voices you hear from are representative of the entire village, irrespective of what they say.
I, and a lot of people I know, did not vote against the previous council and for the current one because we had much of a view on the Valley expansion, Graydon, Schedler, or the parking garage. Neither did we vote because of those loud voices. What we voted against was the dismissive attitude of those council members against residents.
Now I do not believe that those council members were very being dismissive on purpose. They did very much want to win elections. However, they kept hearing from a specific group that their actions were popular, and that those opposing their proposals were a vocal and disruptive minority.
Unfortunately, I get the sense that the new council has become beholden to a different coterie with its own agenda. That coterie is openly dismissive of regular residents in extremely caustic terms. It is as if we have traded the tzar for the politburo. Questioning actions of the new council is dismissed as the handiwork of the Aronson crew.
I urge you to work for the wider village, and not just those voices and their interests. For example, on this issue it appears that the lack of commuters and abundance of casual diners in the coterie has led to this disastrous decision. I urge you to reverse this decision and in future, think about the outcome for all residents based on wider feedback, and not just based on what you hear from a few.
How about commuters? Commuter spaces are not fixed. Anyone can park there. So commuters are not finding spots now.
@10.57. If Rurik is able to inspire more than 2 people then this village is doomed.
I would not say that the garage was unwanted based on the vote last year……
1:35, the Aronsohn-driven disinformation scheme related to the garage referendum (a video? really?) was so appalling and effective that all Yes votes became highly questionable. Asked again, now, how many of those voters would have voted differently?
12.01. Good points ..they figured out that if you constrain the supply to
Inflate the value of the space (slots) to the neediest meaning,.those who have to catch that early train (and pay more) to make a living and pay huge taxes and meet every other demand of a boss and a growing family’s needs like food,colleges..the local employees Ned support too but can take a few minutes to drive around to find that spot somewhere ,,no train to catch..
In fact it’s Catch 22..residents holding the bag for the dreams of the merchants ..we can be Westfield,Englewood,,Montclair or some other pipe dream town where common service sell at a premium.Internets coming for
Everyone’s jobs unfortunately ..Business is down because the violations department issues outrageous Fines to the same visitors we pretend to cherish..systems built to fail..how many good customers have they lost your business..too many to not count..some never come back..Glen Rock has 3 hours free day parking in the back lots off Main Street..not rocket science folks,
1.35….HUh?.a referendum was Had and slayed the Garagezilla
The song with the lyrics, “I saw the sign and it opened up my eyes…” could be about Ridgewood 2017. The old town garage site which is in the process of bring remediated due to gasoline and dry cleaning contaminants is the perfect place for a new garage if it is deemed needed. It is in the center of town baking it useful to employees, shoppers, diners and commuters. Franklin Avenue is in desperate need of a makeover. It is a wide much used street and could fit in quite nicely. In 2008 aproposal was made to put in apartments over some shops and a garage with a small park ( trees and a bench or two) on the Franklin Avenue side. At the time the developer would have done the cleanup. It is now 2017, we are doing the remaining cleanup and could own the entire area with minimum difficulty. Now we have an asset and would be in control of how we develop it. An enviable position to be in and a much better spot than the Hudson Street location which is a narrow street, across from a church and could have a negative impact on small businesses in the area. I see the sign every day as I drive up Franklin and it says ” Town Garage”! can the message be any clearer?
1:35 are you high?
5:46. It’s not in the process of anything. Absolutely nothing is being done there. No remediation nothing. Not yet.
And you’re really informed incorrectly about a lot of Franklin. I agree with your thoughts your just so so so late to the table.
Tanks have been removed already There is 900,000 dollars in the budget for cleanup and the DEP is coming in March to test soils in the area. Until they start groundbreaking at Hudson Street there is some hope. I am not too late to the table. I was around when they took down the Hudson Street Fire House and had to interrview the firemen who were dead set against it: response time to west side would increase and the building was sturdy. I haven’t had a drink in days and I don’t do drugs Just a lot of coffee that keeps me awake at night thinking about town and national issues.