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Ridgewood NJ, Councilwoman Siobhan Winograd seems hell bent on finding out the name of the Village employee/official who allegedly “requested” that the State of NJ’s Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) designate the entire Schedler property as “historic.” The “historic” designation status requires SHPO’s approval of any plans the Village may have to develop/improve the property.
Councilwoman Winograd and others believe that the property’s “historic” designation status will now prohibit, or significantly limit, any desire the Village may have to install artificial turf, permanent field lighting, and/or stadium bleachers at Schedler. It is no secret that the Councilwoman is a proponent of installing artificial turf and permanent lighting there.
It is being intimated by some, perhaps even Councilwoman Winograd, that a rogue employee, or an appointed/elected official, may have intentionally requested that SHPO designate the entire property as “historic” for the specific purpose of preventing its development as an athletic field/sports complex.
The staff of The Ridgewood Blog can only assume that if it is determined one individual acted alone in requesting SHPO designate the property as “historic,” someone (you know who) will suggest retribution in some form or another (e.g., dismissal, ethics violation, civil lawsuit, criminal charges).
More drama on the way soon, from the Councilwoman who never seems to give it a rest.
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To all the people wasting their time sending petitions to the Council, I hope you learned something from this article. Your petitions, phone calls, and emails should be flooding the Historic Preservation Commission.
If this was done without approval and with the intent to sabotage work on the park, why WOULDN’T we want to know who acted thus way? Why isn’t anyone else talking about this?
Sabotage? Seriously, you need to get a grip on yourself. Geese and squirrels spook you also?
Somebody IS talking about it. Siobhan is harping on it endlessly. Un-effing-endlessly. She wants the historic status of the land overturned at all costs. Who gives a damn about whose name was on the application to get historic status? SHPO designated as historic and that is it.
100% Move on already
Are Winograd and her cronies suggesting that the property was erroneously designated as historic by SHPO? Or, are they suggesting that even though the property is historic, SHPO should not have designated it as such because an “unauthorized” individual tipped them off? What a bunch of loons!
This is exactly what she has her crazed blue eyes laser focused on.
this is what happens when you spend all your time kissing people a$$es in some phony fakebook group , instead of paying attention to the real world , go back to 2017 and start paying some attention to what’s going on in your town
people in town really thing someone could just put a name in a and the State of NJ’s Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) makes it historic ……LOL
Joke, nothing at all historic about it. We would be better off with a Chick-fil-e or Starbucks and a gas station there.
wing nut is elected class clown
how much of a kick back do they expect from the turf field?
I think Siobhan Winograd takes her orders from Paul Vagianos, just like Albert and Gwen used to take their orders from the other Paul.
Blaming Shiobban will not help. You need to fix the root cause which is Paul Vagianos. Unless I am mistaken on this one and this is Shiobban agenda item and Paul is helping her on this one to get something in return for his CBD locations.
He has so much on him to uncover from all the properties he holds in CBD under LLC names and constantly voting at the council meetings on resolutions that will help his properties.
I think Evan Weitz is planted there by the developers for just 2-3 important votes in next four years. For rest of the votes, he will lay low and go with the flow. He will keep Paul and Shiobhan happy to get their return votes for developers top agenda items.
“Yes SHPO, it’s historic, But, it’s the only place left that we can build an athletic complex. So, we want you to withdraw the historic status, especially since a saboteur told you about it in the first place.”
They all take their orders from Ramon. And he takes his orders from state dems.
They’re actually a worse bunch of puppets than that last batch of 3 amigos.
gotta love the NIMBY crowd. let’s waste more time and $$ on attorneys and petitions and have the property remain unused??? make it an athletic field and be done with it.
If you were paying any attention at all, you would know this is not just a NIMBY crowd. People from all over town are supporting the preservation of Schedler as a PARK and not as a SPORTS COMPLEX.
they made all the decision in 2017 you are a bit late
This question has been asked and answered many times. Art Wrubel and Ridgewood’s historic preservation committee started this ball rolling almost 10 years ago. It was all out in the open and everybody who paid attention knew what was happening.
The twit just doesn’t like the answer, so that idiot keeps asking the same tired question expecting the answer to change.
Dumpster fire can’t control the real world like she controls her Facebook page.
But you know what, I’ve been kind of a douche bag toward her. So in an honest attempt to really understand her I think I’m going to start sniffing glue. I figure if I sniff glue for about two years solid I’ll do enough permanent brain damage to come down to her level of thinking. Because I feel as though being in a huffing-induced glue haze is the only way I, or anybody else for that matter, can fully understand and appreciate the twit’s thought process.
Regardless of who got the ball rolling, the property was designated historic. If it isn’t historic, that has nothing to do with who got the ball rolling. Stop wasting taxpayer dollars trying to identify the originator.
a historic outhouse maybe
There must be a large number of glue sniffers in the village-the folks that voted for Biden, Murphy and the current council.
Ridgewood needs a glue bar! There’s a fortune to be made here folks.
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Yeah, which squirrel was it?
It could have also been a goose!
As of the last couple of weeks, the new Village Council has made overtures related to replacing the approved Schedler Park Plan in order to develop and maintain a full-sized regulation turf field. At the last meeting, other Council members voiced concerns over the impact this would have on residents and neighbors directly impacted related to serious health, environmental and last, but certainly not least, major safety concerns as the traffic patterns would cause a significant change to pedestrians and drivers navigating West Saddle River Road coming off of Route 17 North. None of these concerns should be taken lightly regardless of whether you are a proponent of a ball field or not. If you really care about the safety and welfare of any child, young adult or anyone else for that matter, who would potentially utilize an outdoor space at this location or be walking on West Saddle, then SERIOUS consideration of all of the implications needs to be under a GIANT microscope and time should not be wasted on this smoke and mirrors nonsense.
If anyone would spend time or money on a ridiculous finger pointing exercise regarding a historical designation, which is not like turning on a light switch, then we have real issues. On another note, prior to becoming Mayor, wasn’t Paul Vagianos a former Deputy Attorney General with the New Jersey Environmental Prosecution Task Force who then left law to open up a fast food restaurant. So it is more than a little confusing to see him pushing forward an agenda to build a large ball field “complex” that could potentially have a serious impact on health, safety and the environment. How do you turn on a dime and change your values when he stood front and center to uphold environmental and public-health concerns and to increase public participation in the environmental decision-making process and as stated on their website “the Environmental Justice Task Force provides the collaborative mechanism necessary to effectively address environmental justice concerns.” I guess “It’s Greek to Me”!!
Follow the Drachmas
Paul was a Deputy Attorney General with NJ Environmental for a few months. He had one minor case back in the 1980’s, almost 40 years ago. PLEEEEZE stop calling him an attorney (he doesn’t have a license) and especially not an environmental attorney. Let’s not even pretend he’s a lawyer or environmentalist.
In exchange for selling out Schedler, he gets his CBD projects. Plan and simple. $$$$. Has he EVER disclosed exactly how many properties he owns in the CBD? No.
Remember, this is the guy who wants another parking garage on the Town Garage property instead of a pocket park (what say you Rurik Halaby? still support this d-bag?). This is the guy who wanted the ginormous garage.
There must be a lot of yelling and emailing from angry baseball people (including adult leagues, please do not forget, which involve the exchange of money) who were promised, absolutely promised, that if they supported certain candidates, they would finally get their Yankee Stadium despite all indications to the contrary. Guess they thought that all the people who had spent years and years on this project wouldn’t notice that their collaborative efforts were being kicked to the curb.
Village Council membership is an elective office. Elected officials might think hard before antagonizing so many residents.
Not to mention wasting the time of the engineering department and others in revisiting this scenario over and over and over.
The late Linda McNamara would surely have had plenty to say about removing all that nice old dirt and replacing it with carcinogenic plastic grass.
All this shit started a few years ago. All these poor decisions making is going to bankrupt the town.
Shut the town down. Not going in the right direction. The past three years is a mess.
try since the late 90’s
Zero historic about it
There is a lot to unpack here and it has become increasingly evident that certain individuals who may have a vested interest/affiliation believe that sports is for the greater good. Unfortunately, what people are missing is that it isn’t an either or situation. The Friends of Schedler, consist of many residents throughout the Village and not just East side neighbors. People all over Ridgewood are showing support for not only the importance of Schedler’s historic preservation and there is real significance and legitimate artifacts that have come from the property. Whether you like it or not, or you think it adds value or not, it is there and it exists. Over the course of many years, there was a team that worked hard and spent hours on a plan that seemed to make both sides happy. The plan consisted of a playground, a small grass field, parking and was designed to keep a lot of the natural elements of the property intact. But all along people voiced their concerns over the use of artificial turf based on many proven published studies that this has serious health impacts on young children. This is nothing new and didn’t just come to light now. Additionally, well water is the main source of water for a number of neighbors close to the proposed development site. Also not a new issue, but a well known fact. Young and old alike will be directly impacted by compromised contaminated water and this was laid out years ago. This new VC has a secret agenda and is now hiring a lawyer to discuss the property, talk about acquisition of properties, with not transparent plan about what kind of tax dollars are involved (lawyers are expensive). The athletic supporters (apparently labeling them as “sports families” is pejorative) just want a field to play no matter what even at the expense of health, safety and all of the other issues that have been expressed. Not once have I heard someone advocating for the field development express concern for anything other than getting it done and fast. Don’t we have a duty to care about each other as human beings? Doesn’t the VC have a responsibility, fiduciary or otherwise, to care what happens to residents especially if their actions have dire consequences? if harmful toxic deadly chemicals can seep into the water supply. Not to mention very hazardous traffic conditions on an all too narrow stretch of roadway coming off the highway. Ultimately they will have to navigate the consequences of their actions. Is their conscience as large as their agenda? I imagine there is constant pressure to look heroic in the eyes and wallets of the sports affiliations and it is evident that there this pressure is the driving force behind whatever machinations the Village is plotting. But as things are getting contentious and the VC is now being accused of making deveopment at Schedler their mission in life, Pam Perron felt the need to express that “It is not obsessive to fully explore all options, it is not obsessive to consider various designs and it is not obsessive to look for a legal path that prior council never thought of. It is our duty, it is intellectual integrity”. So I can only hope that the VC shows that they have integrity and a moral conscience where the health and safety of residents are at risk.