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On the article Municipal Budget Intro, School Board Coming Up This Week
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On the article South Finley Residents Don't Want Preferred Ridge Traffic Option
Parag Dhagat
11:41 am on Tuesday, April 2, 2013
ReplyWhile they are at it...please see if they can check and be in compliance with the following:
SECTION 21-22 Parking and Loading
§ 21-22.1 Parking.
[Ord. #585, § 510A; Ord. #760, §§ 34-35; Ord. #1004, § 5; Ord. #1103, § 24; Ord. #1222, § 5]§ 21-39.3 Standards for Parking, Loading and Access.
[Ord. #585, § 610C; Ord. #641; Ord. #1103, § 39]SECTION 21-22 Parking and Loading
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On the article South Finley Residents Don't Want Preferred Ridge Traffic Option
Parag Dhagat
7:46 pm on Monday, April 1, 2013
ReplyBOE...please read construction code
§ 21-39.3 Standards for Parking, Loading and Access.
[Ord. #585, § 610C; Ord. #641; Ord. #1103, § 39]
a. All off-street parking areas shall meet the following requirements:
1. All off-street parking, other than for agricultural purposes, shall be paved with a minimum of 1.5 inches of bituminous concrete (FABC) placed on top of a minimum of 3.5 inches of stabilized base and a minimum of four inches of compacted subbase, Type 5A, or an equivalent as approved by the Township Engineer.
2. All parking and loading areas shall be curbed with granite block or concrete curbing constructed to Township standard specifications unless the applicant can demonstrate that elimination of the curbing will not decrease the useful life of the pavement, have a negative effect on drainage or increase maintenance costs.
3. All parking and loading areas shall have convenient means of ingress and egress.
(a) The applicant shall demonstrate to the Board that ingress and egress will not adversely affect the flow of traffic on Township roadways.
(b) Traffic circulation shall be designed to minimize the use of aisles serving parking areas.
(c) For nonresidential uses, parking areas with more than 25 spaces shall have separate entrances and exits.
(d) Where a combined entrance and exit is provided, the access road shall be a minimum of 24 feet in width.
(e) Where separate entrances and exits are provided, the minimum roadway width shall be 15 feet. -
On the article South Finley Residents Don't Want Preferred Ridge Traffic Option
Parag Dhagat
7:25 pm on Monday, April 1, 2013
ReplyThe experiment announced for tomorrow, April 2nd 2013 is incomplete...
The BOE ought to try that for afternoon trafic as well.
Also, try the experiment for a week (morning and afternoon) instead of just a day...
That too unannounced (sort of akin to a double-blind study)...
See how the tensions build up...
See how the phone calls to the BOE increase
Only then will you understand the difficulties associated with option #9!
The option #9...in any case is illegal per local, county, state, federal construction code requirements of seperated parking lot/area entrances and exits.
Stop the charade...please...or you may end up facing court time!
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On the article South Finley Residents Don't Want Preferred Ridge Traffic Option
Parag Dhagat
9:21 am on Saturday, March 30, 2013
ReplyInteresting, BOE actually impedes Police activity by giving a few kids privileged, secure & free on campus parking, which its creates by misappropriating funds. So those students who are denied such parking, go park along Collyer. This whole process impedes police further, on & off campus! Then BOE complains about Police Dept being in the wrong place & wants it moved, argument being that Police can be easily & quickly blocked by terrorism threats. BOE itself will not allow further Arts programs that promote local culture, takes away tennis courts & other sports activity to a distance further away from school, then talks about actually breaking down walls, but of the wrong kind, impedes Health Department customers, bother the neighbors, with no regards to local history and that is progress because it produces more of what? Stressed out zombies like BOE & Engineering dept administration? Oh no! i am so sorry..i should ask, more liberal culture? Masked as Republican values? Breaking local culture down even more?! Why? Because it is not theirs?! Guess what! we do not really need those real democrats waiting in the wings, to do the breakdown for us...we are quite good at it ourselves!:):)
Also,...no great school frontage!...who cares right! a jewel from a donated mine that Mr. Lee gave us can hide behind all those rocks. Mr. Lee is probably twirling around in his grave right now, as if on a lathe, wondering why i gave these folks my land?...
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On the article Task Force Leans Toward Wider Driveway to Ease Ridge HS Traffic Jams
Parag Dhagat
9:21 am on Tuesday, March 26, 2013
ReplyThey have 62+ acres of property there at the BOE. Throw in the approximately 45 acres of Township property surrounding it and the total land mass sums up about 110 acres....and All they want to do is create all these different, 'small-one-lane-entrance- loops'.
They have one through Homestead Village serving little king cedar (1 lane entrance), i call it the Eeny loop; there is Meeny at the oval by the Traffic light on South Finley (1 lane entrance); Then they have Miny at the Township Complex (1 lane entrance), ... mind you Miny is officially not supposed to exist for and yet 'serves' Her Highness at the Ridge, and gets used as a small loop by the Northern-subjects; now they want to make Moe at the Health department (again 1 lane entrance). To top it all off, because they are not satisfied with Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe, and all the WALL tearing down....they will then have Ms. Forgione squeal, after Moe is created, and have more wall tearing down to the North of the Health department to give her brick-house a personalized 'loop' to own (now i do not have more ryhmers so maybe we can call it the piggy-loop).... with an entrance on the South side and an exit to the North side of the building (ps: 1 lane entrance only please).
Approximately 110 acres and about 4/5 one lane entrances all around. No multi-lane entrances or proper multi-lane exits at all! Calling it bad planning is an understatement.
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On the article Ridge Traffic Options Ranging from Free to $1.1M in Online Report
Parag Dhagat
8:18 am on Thursday, March 21, 2013
ReplyI can not fathom how/why the reporter does not present that option # 9 is a 'preferred pick' option per the recommendations of the JTF!
Homestead Village neighbors received a 'faithful'...on your side...loyal...voice from the South Finley residents, asking for buses to be out of Homestead Village. Are they now up for a loyal...faithful...supportive challenge of siding with the South Finley residents to prevent another two-way road in the current South Finley neighborhood, by the Health Department?!...It is already saturated with roads all around?!
There is a way out there without 'condemning'/eminent-domaining/usurping anybodies property....by paying up for a great retirement, for an old couple at 300 South Finley. They represent all that is good about Basking Ridge and by extension Bernards Township(!!)....because of which the rest of us came to live here! They are in the right place at the right time to make a great retirement bonanza.
Such a road would allow for a proper multi-lane entrance that a 62+ acre property should have...instead of all the single lane entrances being considered!
Unless we do this, we are just 'patching-up' over older patches....
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On the article Bernards Schools Will Save $2.5M by Refinancing
Parag Dhagat
11:16 am on Saturday, February 23, 2013
Hey Mr. Wicks.....you used to regularly attend the BOE meetings before! I know you are getting up there:):)!!....but you should start coming once more!!! you are a neighborhood voice that cares and so you ought to be there to help right any course-changes!!
what happened to the live TV-streaming of BOE meetings that was planned to begin early this year!!? Has it started!!?
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On the article Ridge Traffic Task Force Could Report in Late March
Parag Dhagat
5:58 pm on Tuesday, February 12, 2013
ReplyHas anybody from the local public been attending the joint task force meetings? As i recall, the officials had said that after that one meeting where input from the public was asked for, the public could attend the meetings thereafter.....just not comment and participate in the decision making process! Am i right or am i right....can someone please confirm that?!! where is the JTF meeting schedule being put up? and what time do they meet?
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On the article Ridge Baseball Turf Field Plan Benched for Now
Parag Dhagat
2:45 pm on Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Sure ma'am.....Basking Ridge is a small town...but Bernards Township is much larger.. 28,000 people are a whole lot more than back in 1957's! i do not live near that complex. I am by the Highschool. I purchased my house in 2002! I am a 10 year resident. My child played at the beautiful Fortenbacker Field Complex....and we have some great memories from then. Like i said, that complex can do with renovations and stuff.... i do remember though that, then, the residents near that complex had to deal with some overflow as well. it just must get on their nerves i guess! The population keeps increasing even more! what with the mines now up for redevelopment...and don't you think we will experience a ripple effect from all the 11 million being considered for immigration reform?! Like it or not!!
You sure lived during a very sparsely populated past and i do not envy you for that. As you said ' For now, parents of many players are traveling to Branchburg, Martinsville and Bridgewater to get their kid's training'...and all i am saying some more local fields along with a better re-developed Fortenbacher Complex would go a long way.
Either that,.. or stop increasing the population inflow somehow!! or try some reverse flow affecting buy-backs!!
Parag Dhagat
9:57 am on Monday, April 8, 2013
They must think, our children are used to THE middle school 'LOOPS', so on graduating to high school, their 'maturing' deserves subliminal security-suggestions of 'loops' (the 'IMMMP' Ridge High mini-loops), so their little minds can rest assured with a false sense of security.
Money well spent? NOT!
Then, some of our children supposedly get 'trained' to feel more mature parking 'free' along Collyer instead of on a secure campus. So instead of clutter-free byroads for easy, quick access, police must maneuver a maze.
While they offer certain privileged few, free parking on campus and yellow-buses run half-empty, BOE members complain about how the police deserve a better entrance-exit in these crazy times or a secondary egress of some sort, with all kinds of threats around, but only a quickly block-able, single lane entrance-exit to deal with it all!
They then demand 'let us tear down walls'! As if that is supposed to increase on-campus safety and a decreased chances of accidents....Meanwhile they leave huge gaping holes between the two loops they are creating....thus actually contributing to unsafe on-campus driving behavior, with criss-crossing traffic, that breaks basic safety rules of how a parking lot should be constructed and the entry-exit ways separated, with incomplete speed-bump and side-walk constructions contributing further to the problem, while they break the townships ordinances on how any parking-lot construction should be made completely safe and LEGAL.