March 28,2018
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, Village Council candidate Janice Willett (https://www.willettforcouncil2018.com/issues )is advocating for the old oversized, too big for the foot print “Garagezilla “.
“Bottom line, we need to build a parking garage. But the question is where and how large. The current Council is looking at several proposals for a three-story garage on the Hudson Street lot—but the Council also imposed the restriction that the garage should fit strictly within the footprint of the lot and that it should hold about 240 cars. The existing surface lot has 75 spaces, so that’s only 165 incremental spaces. At a cost of roughly $10 million, or $60K per incremental space, they will be the most expensive new parking spaces on the Eastern seaboard (see p. 5.4-6 of this study). And we won’t really be adding any parking at all, because the Brogan and Ken Smith lots, which were formerly used by commuters and others, held about 160 cars.
We can do better. Let’s allow the garage to extend six feet beyond the footprint, as previous designs did, for a gain of at least 225 incremental spaces instead of just 165. And then let’s get the garage built.” https://www.willettforcouncil2018.com/issues
Hey Janice, wake up and tell Fr. Ron that you want to extend six feet into the street. Are you for real???????
What a tremendously stupid idea. I was prepared to hear out what she had to say, but if that’s really on her webpage, then she’s not getting my vote.
6 feet is a lie. Which design extended to 6 feet?
A properly sized garage will not provide enough spaces to justify its construction. A garage with enough spaces to justify construction will be too tall and too long, unacceptably devastating the neighborhood. Perhaps we should delay construction until some future day when the laws of physics and/or of municipal economics change in our favor. So here’s an idea: To satisfy Ms. Willett and other like-minded residents, rather than entirely reject the idea of building a parking garage on that lot, we should budget no more than $1000 per year until the end of time to fund annual feasibility studies, all of which will have the predetermined conclusion of: “Not yet, but someday we’re definitely going to do it!” In the meatime, let’s move on to more practical concerns, shall we?
Build a ten story Garagezilla or a Garagemahal on the footprint of the Ridgewood train station. Will this suffice?
No garage, build a second deck for additional parking. It certainly would not cost $10 million. No to Willet!
How do you trust someone who is not telling the truth NOW?
HEY JANICE- YOU SEEM TO FORGET what happened on June 22-Special Election Garage Vote
“Voters turned out to overwhelming say NO in every district in what can only be called a landslide for the NO votes.
Full results
1425 yes votes 34.8%
86 absentee
2675 no votes 65.2%
81 absentee
total turn out 4097 24%
total registered voters 16901
Proposal – Ordinance No. 3521 for $11,500,000 Bond to Finance Hudson Street Parking Deck”
That was never a good place for a garage THAT WE DO NOT NEED.
10:28 we can become competitive with Ramsey ,New Brunswick ,Newark hooray for those loosers.moving
trucks support the garage,,funnel for endless boomers cashing out and heading south..oh that benefits the
realtors …that’s the real deal..we are being played by players…open your eyes RIDGEWOOD,
She is correct. I agree with her.
Take a nap Janice. When you wake up the election will be over and once again you will have been trounced.
“Bottom line,” we DO NOT NEED an $11 million white elephant! Total waste.