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Ridgewood lays out plan to resolve decades‑old Green Acres diversion; public hearing set
Summary
Ridgewood officials on Sept. 3 presented a plan to clear a decades‑old Green Acres diversion related to a 1983 removal of a 0.378‑acre park parcel on South Broad Street and scheduled a public hearing for the following Tuesday to finalize appraisals and replacement land.
Council members and staff on Sept. 3 walked the public through a long‑running effort to clear a Green Acres diversion that has prevented Ridgewood from receiving state park and open‑space grants for more than a decade.
Council member Siobhan Winograd and Council member Frank Mortimer described how a 0.378‑acre parcel on South Broad Street was removed from recreational use in 1983 and remained unrecorded as parkland until a Recreational and Open Space Inventory (RASI) review in 2011 exposed the discrepancy. NJ Green Acres rules require municipal approval and replacement land for any non‑recreational use or disposal of encumbered land; unresolved diversions render…
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