Sunday, November 11, 2012
Few summonses have been issued to those placing branches in the leaf piles, Village Manager Ken Gabbert reported at the Wednesday council meeting.
As you drive up and down Ridgewood's streets, you might notice there are a heck of a lot of branches peeking out of leaf piles. The council and administration has made clear they find the appearance of branches in piles distressing due to the safety issues. So distressing they were A-OK with an ordinance that would penalize violators with fines up to $1,000. But with the widespread devastation in Ridgewood courtesy of Hurricane Sandy, officials say they've overall had a solid level of compliance given the circumstances. “There's been tremendous cooperation even though it looks like there’s a lot on the street,” Village Manager Ken Gabbert said Wednesday night. According to Gabbert, the sights were far worse following last October's freak …
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Plan to overhaul leaf policy ordinance is a "solution seeking a problem," Mayor Paul Aronsohn said. What's on the books will remain, though with harsher penalties to those violating the rules.
Residents must bag the leaves. No, scratch that. Well, make sure leaves are off the main roads and be certain that piles don't contain branches. Or you might get fined or even jailed if they do. Hold the phone, that might be a little too harsh. After nearly a year spent drafting new methods of improving leaf collection in Ridgewood, the council on Wednesday decided it might have been legislating a problem that didn't exist. On Wednesday night, the Ridgewood Village Council formally voted down the latest leaf collection ordinance and reintroduced the policy that's already on the books, but one that now includes harsher penalties for those caught breaking the rules. "Maybe this is a solution in search of a problem," Mayor Paul Aronsohn said …
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Residents, officials agreed the ordinance lacked enough specifics on who could put leaf piles where, as silence on safety impacts near schools.
The list of things residents must do to avoid facing harsh penalties for violating village's new leaf collection ordinance was lacking clarity, forcing the council to delay a vote on the new policy. Addressing the council and top administrators, resident Boyd Loving noted there was a discrepancy between the language of the proposed ordinance and a flyer on the do's and dont's, sent with the latest tax bills. The flyer stated that leaves could not be placed on the sidewalk or street on the following streets: But according to the proposed ordinance, no property owner or landscaper on those streets can place the leaves "in front of their premises." With 35 inches at the right of way, many homeowners would not be able to fit the piles, …
Friday, September 7, 2012
You don't have to bag your own leaves, but you do have to follow the rules – or else, the village says.
Instead of telling residents to bag the leaves themselves this fall, the village will simply be asking them to abide by the rules long in effect. Unlike past years, those not following the regulations will be facing stiff fines, staff said Wednesday night. "We will just be strictly enforcing those to make sure we don't have the leaf/branch issues that we had in 2012," Village Manager Ken Gabbert said. If you don't remember some of the basics of leaf collection protocal, the village will be reminding you. Count on it, was the message. Staff hammered some of the basic no-no's Wednesday night. The biggest, arguably, is the restriction on putting the leaf piles out more than seven days before Streets is scheduled to pick them up. "We made it …
Friday, June 8, 2012
Do you like the new proposal?
A potential new solution to Ridgewood's "disaster" of a leaf collection program may have emerged, but the residents probably won't like it. At Wednesday night's council meeting, officials agreed the old leaf collection plan – scooping up leaves left on the curb three different times from October through December – simply wasn't working and a new council will choose a revised plan. Ridgewood simply couldn't handle the double-to-triple the debris volume last fall and it showed. During the October snowstorm melee, village workers were injured, overtime ran sky-high and contractors came to help cleanup weeks after the snow fell. For many residents it was too little, too late. Under the new proposal, residents take far more responsibility and…
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Pending changes a result of heavy criticism village faced in October snowstorm response.
Village administrators expect to finalize new plans to deal with disaster scenarios and address leaf/debris collection woes within a month or two, Village Manager Ken Gabbert said Wednesday. The village was widely criticized for its lack of effective communication with residents during the October snowstorm, as well as an antiquated leaf/storm debris collection plan that followed. Major roads were chalked with down tree limbs while dead-end cul-de-sacs were clean as a whistle, drawing confusion and ire from residents. "We took very seriously the storm events we had last fall and started several meetings with OEM and key staff in terms of what we should do with key aspects of notification and mobilization to any storm event," Gabbert said. …
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