Posted on 04/07/2021 4:26:27 PM PDT by CaptainK
After years of not being able to find a buyer for her Saddle River mansion, Rosie O’Donnell finally caved and sold her home at a loss, The Post has learned.
But the home’s next residents are already causing a stir in the tony neighborhood, home to the rich and famous, from rapper Ja Rule to singer Mary J. Blige.
The six-bedroom, nine-bathroom abode is expected to be demolished and turned into a series of affordable housing units per a landmark public court settlement with Fair Share Housing Center.
But the agreement has left its upscale residents outraged.
According to an unnamed source who lives in the area and was familiar with the proceedings, the borough had plans to comply with the affordable housing requirements in Saddle River. The requirements usually include sites that are 100% affordable.
However, in this case, local developers Saddle River Investors intervened, court docs show.
And their intervention only “added insult to injury,” the source said.
As part of a fair housing court settlement between the borough of Saddle River and the Fair Share Housing Center of NJ, the 5-acre lot that belonged to O’Donnell will be converted into 60 units — of which only 20% will be used for affordable housing.
Essentially, the source said, “the developer plans to segregate the units, instead of integrating them with the high density multi-family housing.” While there is no legal requirement that the units be integrated, residents say the current plan doesn’t sit well with them. Saddle River Investors has declined to comment on the matter.
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LOL The Rosie O’Donnell Home for the homeless!
Hope they can get the walrus smell out
The premises is uninhabitable, seems that it is completely overrun by craps . . . the really dangerous kind, called “snappers.”
Rosie should be demolished.
craps=crabs (but I’m sure you knew that!)
Where do the people who clean the current reseidents’ homes and tend their gardens live?
New Jersey voted for this.
Think of the increased traffic of 60 units compared to one. They will have to lock everything down.
When I saw the headline that her home was to be demolished I was hoping she’d be in it.
🤣
Nice digs. It’s a shame it will be bulldozed. Not very environmentally friendly of her to sell it for such.
In my neighborhood, they’re bulldozing decent houses left and right to build mcmansions.
In the near future they will be residing at Rosie O’Donnell Acres.
A big Nelson Muntz HA HA for the rich liberals.
Could live in the affordable family slum housing and cut the commute. Their gardeners, maids, sex slaves, dealers, etc. could be just a holler away .... now that’s karma for you. They will have to install signs in Spanish and have a few taco and burrito wagon cruising the area.
Perhaps a federal Superfund site?
That could be dangerous to a D-9!
Imagine the toxic waste that will have to be dealt with from that site
Frankly, either one works.
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