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Downtown Housing Study

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Planning Board to Discuss Downtown Housing Projects Wednesday

Four separate plans have been filed to build apartment complexes in Ridgewood's downtown.

Village zoning officials will be debating the controversial issue of proposed zoning policies for multifamiy housing in Ridgewood's downtown on Wednesday, Nov. 14. The meeting – first planned for Nov. 6 but canceled due to Hurricane Sandy – will take place in the senior center of Village Hall at 7:30 p.m. Village Planner Blais Brancheau spent about eight months determining what he felt was an appropriate scale to potential housing developments in the downtown. In a 5-page checklist, he sought to include desired lot sizes, traffc congestion, density, building height, proximity to public transit and other points. The checklist will likely be discussed on Wednesday. Currently, two projects are in front of the zoning board (Chestnut Village …

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