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The "Renewal" would require the Village to pay for 60 new Affordable Housing units

As reported in the Ridgewood News on January 25, the Council of Affordable Housing (COAH) would require the Village of Ridgewood to provide 60 new affordable housing units if the "Renewal" is approved.

Under its proposed "Renewal" project, The Valley Hospital, according to Rutishauser, is calling for approximately 378,000 square feet to be built, which under the proposed guidelines would require the town to build about 60 more units of affordable housing. Asked where those units would go, Rutishauser said, "I haven't got the foggiest idea".

Robin Goldfischer, vice president and general council for the hospital, said the New Jersey Hospital Association (NJHA) is petitioning COAH to exclude hospitals from the requirement ...

If the Valley Expansion is approved, 60 affordable housing units would need to be built somewhere in town. If each new family has an average of 2 children, what does this mean to the Ridgewood school system? In other towns with similar increases in population over a short time (she teaches in one), class sizes have increased, music and special education classes have been used as normal class rooms and budgets had to be increased to cope