Comprehensive Plan
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Edgewater Park Township Delanco Township Delanco Township Burlington Township Riverside Township COUNTY INVESTMENT AREA MAP COMMUNITY VISION OVERLAY Springfield Township Growth Areas Willingboro Township Metropolitan Core POLICY GOAL 1: Promote growth, development, and redevelopment activities in POLICY GOAL 3: Support and promote the vitality and revitalization of the City suburban and urban communities that contain existing or planned infrastructure, of Camden. Delran Township existing population and employment clusters, and dense settlement patterns. Westampton Township Riverton Borough Priority Growth Investment Area (PGIA) Innovation Hub Palmyra Borough POLICY GOAL 4: Leverage the synergy of educational, business, institutional uses Cinnaminson Township and regional attractions to spur a regional mixed-use hub inEastampton downtown Township Camden. Alternate Growth Investment Area (AGIA) Pennsauken / Route 73 Mount Holly Township Transit Centers Conservation/Preservation Areas Existing Philadelphia Pochack Creek POLICY GOAL 5: Encourage active transit corridors by clustering growth, POLICY GOAL 2: Encourage limited growth, conservation, or preservation development, and a vibrant mix of uses within a walkable distance of transit Proposed Pemberton Township Pennsauken Transit Center activities in areas that do not contain existing or planned infrastructure Moorestown Township stations. 90 supportive of large-scale growth and development, and contain a majority Hainesport Township of resources that are important to the environmental, scenic, and agricultural Pennsauken Township qualities of the County. Suburban Centers Pemberton Borough POLICY GOAL 6: Evolve suburban centers to become not just hubs of commerce, 7 AC LINE Limited Growth Investment Area (LGIA) 36th Street Station Delaware River Tributary but also walkable, mixed-use focal points of the community. 30th Street Station Lumberton Township RIVERLINE 8th and 8 Maple Shade Township Priority Preservation Investment Area (PPIA) 15th and Market Merchantville Borough Main Streets Locust 5b 6 Mount Laurel Township 12th/13th 9th/10th 1 POLICY GOAL 7: Support the vitality of neighborhood main streets as anchors of and Locust and Locust 5a the local community. Cooper River30 2 1. Market Street (City of Camden) 38 Camden City 2. Broadway (City of Camden) 5 Chandlers Run 3. Yorkship Square / Fairview (City of Camden) 4. Mt. Ephraim Avenue (City of Camden) 5. Haddon Avenue (City of Camden) 4 Cherry Hill 41 Southampton 4 (Atlantic City Line) 6. Federal Street (City of Camden) Burlington County Township Cooper River Lake 7. River Road (Pennsauken) Cooper River 70 8. Merchantville (Merchantville) Ferry Ave Collingswood 9. PATCO Corridor (Collingswood, Haddon Township, Haddonfield) Borough 10. Route 30 Corridor (Oaklyn, Audubon, Haddon Heights) I-676 PATCO Woodlynne 11. Kings Highway Corridor (Mt. Ephraim Borough) Borough 130 12. Broadway (Gloucester City) 3 Collingswood 9 13. Black Horse Pike (Runnemede Borough) 14. Black Horse Pike / Church St. (Gloucester Township) 34a 15. White Horse Pike (Berlin) 2 Haddon Newton Creek Westmont 3 Township Haddon Cherry Hill Township 30 Township 1 Oaklyn Peter Creek Borough 41 70 2 Arterial Corridors 12 168 Audubon Haddon Park Borough 10 POLICY GOAL 8: Improve multi-modal conditions and land use quality along Gloucester City Township Haddonfield Haddonfield I-76 Audubon Borough Borough aging strip arterial corridors. Haddon Lake 1c Mount Ephraim Tindale Run Borough 1b 11 32 Brooklawn Borough Active Waterfronts Haddon Heights Borough Tavistock Borough 26 POLICY GOAL 9: Harness the economic and cultural potential of the County’s Big Timber Creek 29a 29b 31 28 I-295 30 signature destination parks, riverfronts, and open spaces. 41 Woodcrest West Deptford Barrington Borough Evesham Township Township Bellmawr Borough Lawnside Borough National Park Westville Borough Borough Woodcrest Creek MedfordOutside Township 42 Beaver Brook Resilient Landscapes 3 Medford Lakes Borough I-295 PROPOSED BRT LINE Pinelands Ashland POLICY GOAL 10: Ensure that the County’s green and grey infrastructure systems Magnolia Borough Pinelands Inside work to reduce the impacts of natural disasters, create viable alternativesTabernacle for non- Runnemede Borough Voorhees Township Township PATCO / AC LINE 30 Pinelands motorized forms of transportation, and promote sustainable forms of land use 13 development. Gravelly Run Somerdale Borough Otter Brook 168 Hi-Nella Lindenwold Woodbury Borough (Atlantic City Line) Gibbsboro Borough City Lindenwold (PATCO - end of line) Stratford Borough Pines Run AC LINE Laurel Springs Borough Lindenwold Borough Deptford Township Woodbury 73 PROPOSED LIGHT RAIL Heights Mason Run Borough Trout Run ClementonPilling Lake Borough 30 Berlin Township 14 Big Timber Creek Farrows Run 42 15 Gloucester Township 168 Berlin Borough Wenonah Pine Hill Pine Valley Borough Borough Holly Run Borough ATCO (Atlantic City Line) Shamong Great Egg Harbor River Township Mullica River tributary Mullica River tributary Sharps Branch Toms Branch 30 Hays Mill Creek Mantua Township Pinelands 73 Atico Lake Washington Township Slab Bridge Branch Cooper Branch Waterford Township Kay Branch 42 Pitman Borough Mullica River tributary Wildcat Branch Chesilhurst Borough Gloucester County Price Branch Washington Township Harrison Township Fourmile Branch Hobb Lake Clark Branch Glassboro Borough Winslow Township Pump Branch Albertson Brook Pinelands Anchor Lake 30 42 143 73 Clayton Borough Elk Township Monroe Township Penny Pot Stream Atlantic County Franklin Township Camden County Comprehensive Plan Camden County, New Jersey 0 0.5 1 2 3 Milesmiles Vision Map - DRAFT 3/14/2014 O 0 1 2 PROJECT BASE MAP Miles CAMDEN COUNTY O 0 0.5 1 2 Comprehensive Plan Kevin Becica, County Engineer County Becica, Kevin meets the social, economic, and environmental needs of its current and future residents. future and current its of needs environmental and economic, social, the meets Land Use Element Executive Summary Highway Element Executive Summary Andrew Levecchia, Planning Director Planning Levecchia, Andrew Sam Martello, Director of Public Works Public of Director Martello, Sam promotes long-term sustainable policies and land use patterns that ensure that Camden County County Camden that ensure that patterns use land and policies sustainable long-term promotes DURABILITY Hon. Ian Leonard, Freeholder Freeholder Leonard, Ian Hon. CC: Hon. Louis Cappelli, Jr., Freeholder Director Director Freeholder Jr., Cappelli, Louis CC: Hon. Camden County’s Land Use Element is intended to provide the 2. Encourage limited growth, conservation, or preservation The Highway Plan sets the direction for highway infrastructure— • Providing safety and mobility enhancements to relieve County and its 37 municipalities with an actionable vision for the activities in areas that do not contain existing or planned and particularly the County Route (CR) network—to keep pace congestion and decrease travel time while maintaining the to remain untouched. remain to future, providing a clear picture of what the land use landscape infrastructure supportive of large-scale growth and with changes expected by 2040. Principles guiding the project integrity of the county highway system and, enhanced multi-modal connections in suburban, urban, and rural areas, allowing undeveloped and natural areas areas natural and undeveloped allowing areas, rural and urban, suburban, in connections multi-modal enhanced in the County could look like by 2040. It draws off of Camden development, and contain a majority of resources that are include: promotes sustainable, compact land use patterns in areas with existing infrastructure, in addition to to addition in infrastructure, existing with areas in patterns use land compact sustainable, promotes PROXIMITY Camden County Planning Board Chairman Board Planning County Camden County’s inherent strengths and seeks to reposition challenged important to the environmental, scenic, and agricultural • A series of specifi c project recommendations that range from George W. Jones Jones W. George areas of the County to be successful in the future. The Land qualities of the County. • Support the County’s economic activity and vitality, simple intersection redesign to new facilities that provide Use Element is part of an overall update to Camden County’s access, traffi c control and congestion relief. centers, and strong, well-connected neighborhoods. well-connected strong, and centers, 3. Support and promote the vitality and revitalization of the Comprehensive Plan, and is intended to keep pace with changes • Improve mobility and accessibility for the County’s residents Very truly yours, truly Very promotes economic and social interaction through the strengthening of downtowns, mixed-use mixed-use downtowns, of strengthening the through interaction social and economic promotes VIBRANCY VIBRANCY City of Camden. anticipated up to the year 2040. and products, Camden County owns and maintains an extensive and easily 4. Leverage the synergy of educational, business, institutional accessible highway system that serves local and national needs. Guiding Principles for Achieving the Vision the Achieving for Principles Guiding the Planning Board in endorsing this plan. plan. this endorsing in Board Planning the Camden County and therefore I ask you to join join to you ask I therefore and County Camden The issues, principles, goals, and policy recommendations in uses, and regional attractions to spur a regional mixed-use