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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Get as far away from big urban areas as fast as your little legs will take you.
You’ve been warned.
Beyond the suburbs...out where i am. Trump country Michigan. Flags everywhere. Lots of guns. Hear practice rounds going off every day.
Maybe one of the well-heeled neighborhood landed gentry should have purchased her mansion as is. Could have avoided all this ‘horror’ of having none-rich (and possibly non WHITE) people living among them.
Correct. I can’t even imagine 60 housing units on 5 acres. WE have 5 acres here with a neighbor 1/4 mile away and I consider that crowded.
“100% affordable” -— That would be “free” by my reckoning.
Hahahaha
There goes the neighborhood.
Thanks Rosie !
The place we just sold in NY was on a quarter of an acre and it did not leave us with lot of yard space or privacy.
We did have great neighbors though so that was a blessing. If they had not been, it would have been hellish.
She came real close to buying Olivia Newton John’s house on Jupiter Island years ago. She backed out when a contractor working on the house blew his brains out on ONJ’s back patio.
Jupiter dodged a big, fat bullet there.
That house is very close to Steve Doocey’s and Kid Rock’s houses btw.
Connecticut is trying to put slums (er, sorry, affordable housing) in the toney areas. If I lived in a 4 million dollar mansion, I sure wouldn’t want an affordable housing complex next to me...
The EPA called it a hazardous zone...😀
Yes, for the affordable housing folks....😀
Actually New Jerseyans didn’t vote for these affordable housing schemes. They came to being from a court decision (Mount Laurel) that forces every NJ municipality to have a certain amount of affordable housing units based on population.
Developers strongly backed the concept and often they sue towns that have not met their quota. It is called a builders remedy which allows developers to strongarm towns into letting them put in ill conceived and often unwanted developments. The town basically has to green light the developers market rate development as long as the developer sets aside a percentage as “affordable housing”. A suburban township near me just settled a lawsuit brought by a developer who wanted to build a massive development on a farm just outside a small village. The township had fought this development for years because it would dramatically increase traffic and clog the school system. They eventually lost because they did not have enough affordable housing units and the developer offered to build them as part of their much bigger development.
““Everything is out of pocket here,” Schepisi said. “Pay out of pocket for sports, schools… how is somebody with very little income viable to live in this town?””
Well, these people could be a bit GENEROUS with their own money, given how ‘generous’ they are with the money of other people.
My nearest neighbor is almost 3 miles away around the mountain, and I consider that not only crowded, but to damn close!
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The wokesters think you are a billionaire if you have a quarter-acre lot with a 1,600 foot ranch house. They believe you didn’t earn it and should share it with the more deserving.
Of course it is ridiculous. It is utterly ridiculous. But it is real. They are gunning for all private property ownership and want nobody to have any more than anybody else.
That faggot bitch is still vexing us.
Rosie, get lost, will ya?
When will her crap ever end?
I feel sorry for the folks of Saddle River.
OH yeah...
It will need more chlorine
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