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Ridgewood NJ, according to Village Manager Heather Mailander , there will be a parking rate increase on February 1, 2020. The new rates will be $1.00/hour in the lots and $1.25/hour on the streets. The rate increase is necessary in order to pay for the construction of the Hudson Street Garage.
In addition, the Village is switching over from parking meters to parking kiosks throughout the Central Business District. You must know your license plate number in order to pay at the kiosks. You do not have to display the receipt on your windshield. The kiosks will accept coins or credit cards. There is a video on the Village website, under the Parking icon, which explains how to use the parking kiosks, which use a touchscreen format.
The crane for the Hudson Street Garage project has been delivered, and the precast panels will arrive and start being installed on February 4, 2020. During the construction of the garage, there will be closures of Hudson Street and South Broad Street for vehicular traffic at various times. Hudson Street will be open to vehicular traffic in the evening.
Screwed again.
more retail vacancies expected. Basic economics – increase the cost, demand will decline. Except for peak periods (dining on Thur-Sat) there will be plenty of parking in the CBD.
We believe this is not a good thing for the village. Down the road in a few years what’s going to happen if the economy sinks for a bit like in the past .and no one is shopping and we are back to having 50 or more stores boarded up .the town will look like a ghost town. It was very depressing looking Back then when that happened.who will be responsible from the top. Or will they all be replaced ,and again they will go after the little small time worker and lay them off because of financial crisis. Pretty much all village departments are short on staffing as it is. And now with recycling Revenues toppling down it’s actually costing the village to do recycling versus making money like in the past. Recycling department is a losing proposition. Yes it’s a law but at who’s cost the taxpayer again. Just like the parking garage unnecessary.Wake up fellow village taxpayers. This parking garage is not for the taxpayers it’s for out-of-towners pretty much that are coming here to park close to the restaurants . End of the story. Every Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday there are plenty of parking at the lower level of the CBD meaning By Ridgewood Ave., Maple Village Hall parking lot ,give me a break. If you went to New York City you would walk a few blocks , This is about lazy people. You take your family into New York City and you park in a parking garage , and how many blocks do you usually walk to the place you’re going. Right. This is a poor investment. This is not going to be a money maker .about time this thing is paid off it will probably will need to be Heavily repaired. Unless they keep on top of it every single year which that’s not gonna happen.
Never dong t.
Say goodbye to more of the downtown merchants.
Why would I feed the meters when I can shop and park free in Glen Rock, Ho-Ho-Kus and Paramus. I’ll never use that garage that I was against from Day One.
If they are smart and they have a due date when does construction will be done. I would utilize the first floor for shoppers and then the rest of the flies lease amount immediately. Just like they do in New York City guarantee money. People to big problem with Parking in the villages at the library. They should build a parking garage behind Village Hall and the library that makes sense. But then again the village doesn’t do many things that makes sense do that. We waste a lot of money.
As a village resident attending all council meetings. We come to realize that we have a few individuals in a few departments throughout the village that have more experience and knowledge on day-to-day operations then the top .straight down to supervision isn’t that something else.
Old info man, it would be unwise to build anything at all in an area prone to heavy flooding. The library should not have been built there and should not be expanded. Village Hall should not have been purchased. It should all be open fields of grass that can absorb floodwater from the brook instead of running down into the yards and homes of the Warren St. area on its southern border. After Hurricane Sandy those streets were lined with ruined furniture and other belongings. The houses shouldn’t have been built there in the first place, but they were, and we now face so-called 100-year floods much closer together. And it’s going to get worse.
Well the county needs to dredge all the Brooks.