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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Yep. We get closer to Dr. Zhivago every day.
George Carlin called the NIMBY syndrome (not in my backyard). Maybe that’s what we need to start calling libtards- NIMBYs. Bet they wouldn’t get the irony.
We live in a nice country club neighborhood, across the main street bordering our neighborhood is ghetto. Anything left out front is simply gone. Between 12am - 5am the little monsters from across the street walk through our neighborhood and take anything not nailed down. We have security cameras with signs out front stating so, so they never come near our house. But, I can rewind my cameras and watch that time period and at least twice a week you can see them with their hoodies on rambling down the street, looking in cars, etc.
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