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Working for Smarter Growth... More Livable Places and Open Spaces Issue #2, 2004 VIEWPOINT Streamlining Development and Protecting the Highlands – A Look at the Legislation here and how will New Jersey grow? Two new New Jersey Future has a long history of strongly advocating pieces of legislation address this question. One for streamlined permitting and other incentives that W bill streamlines development permitting in smart encourage development in the right places, as expressed growth areas, and another aims to protect the Highlands. in the State Plan. We would have preferred a bill that draws from the experience of streamlining in other states. Permit Streamlining After we were advised that this bill would pass quickly as A new bill that streamlines development permitting in a part of the Highlands agreement, we chose to offer our New Jersey passed through the legislature with astonishing support in exchange for amendments that greatly speed and lack of debate as the result of an agreement improved the bill by restricting the locations where reached between legislators and the Governor to advance streamlining would apply. the Highlands bill. The Legislature passed the bill on June 17, and the Governor signed it into law on July 9. As a result, the areas that qualify for expedited permitting are areas identified for growth in the State Plan – Planning The bill is designed to streamline building permits in growth Area 1, Planning Area 2, centers, and other designated areas identified by the State Plan. It also establishes smart areas in need of redevelopment. All of these places have growth divisions within the departments of Environmental been identified, through a public process, as areas where Protection, Community Affairs and Transportation to growth should take place. Prior to New Jersey Future’s expedite the permitting (for a fee) for projects in areas where intervention, the bill defined smart growth areas as PA 1 the State Plan encourages development. If the departments and 2 and “any previously developed site.” This term fail to rule on a complete permit application, usually within “previously developed site” was defined extremely broadly and 45 days, approval would be automatic. Additionally, the included, among other things: farmland; long abandoned and bill creates a Smart Growth Ombudsman with the power overgrown areas; and any area covered with paving blocks, to veto proposed state agency regulations if they are not gravel, crushed stone, or maintained lawns. deemed to be consistent with the State Plan. Supporting the amended bill was a difficult position to take because of the flawed and abbreviated process by Smart Growth Award Winners which the bill was developed and passed. But we believe Making his third appearance at New Jersey that our choice to be involved by contributing to a better Future’s Smart Growth bill made a positive difference in an assured outcome. Awards Celebration, Governor James E. Some environmental advocates, who strongly and vocally McGreevey (pictured opposed this bill and whose viewpoints were echoed by here, left to right, with many of the state’s editorial writers, are likely to challenge SJP Properties Founder this bill. Those challenges can take time. We are turning and President Steven J. Pozycki; Carl Dranoff of Dranoff Properties; and Philip G. Grossman of our attention to implementation to ensure that this new Fleet Bank, a Bank of America Company) told some 300 guests,“Smart law serves the public interest and moves smart growth growth is about how we envision what kind of future we want to have. forward. We call on the Governor, the Legislature and Smart growth is not about saying ‘no’ to growth. Smart growth means state agencies to take the following steps: saying ‘yes’ to growing in the right places and in the right ways.” To learn more about this year’s award winners, see page 3. continued on page 2 continued from previous page • Appoint an Ombudsman of stature and substance, who • A well-defined regional plan for managing growth commands the respect of both the environmental and outside the core preservation area. development communities. • Incentives for municipalities that choose to conform • Convene a process to consider amendments local planning and zoning with the voluntary regional sooner, rather than later, that addresses the issues plan, including technical assistance, planning grants and of highest concern. legal protection. In addition, municipalities that opt for • Make the new permitting process more transparent, and higher density growth will also receive larger planning open to the public. Use the new Ombudsman website grants, preferential access to state land preservation to immediately post every permit under review, the date funding, and the ability to use expanded impact fees. of its receipt, its status and final disposition. • A regional Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) • Coordinate the new permitting process through the program that will seek protection of critical natural State Planning Commission, which has oversight of the resource areas and farmland by supporting growth State Plan that defines the growth areas where expedited where it does the region the most good. permitting applies. These growth areas need careful Unfortunately, last minute amendments to strengthen re-examination; maps need to be redrawn to remove home rule complicated implementation of the TDR wetlands and other environmentally sensitive lands from program. A requirement for the Highlands Council to growth areas. The Commission should take the lead in identify receiving zones in ALL towns outside the protected developing standards the Ombudsman will use to core or provide reasons why this could not be done was decide whether state agency regulations support the diluted to say more generally that receiving areas (unspecified State Plan or not. number) must be identified. A new requirement was • Review the entire process in a year. A task force of added that the Office of Smart Growth must establish public and state representatives should pay special pilot TDR programs involving Highland municipalities, attention to how the streamlining process, the Smart before the regional TDR program can be implemented. Growth Ombudsman and the Smart Growth court In the end, the bill provides a weaker regional planning impact the implementation of the State Plan and framework than that in either the Meadowlands or the environmental quality; and offer recommendations Pinelands. It is however, the first attempt to implement for how the law can be made better. State Plan principles through the use of incentives on a It is our hope that the passage of this bill marks the regional scale, and provides a substantial improvement beginning of a process to formulate a thoughtful and over the status quo. effective plan to help facilitate growth in areas called for by the State Plan, and thereby also protect areas of the Given the ambiguities in the council’s land use authority, State where growth is not appropriate. implementation will be critical. The appointees to the council must have relevant expertise and a demonstrated Protecting the Highlands commitment to protecting regional quality of life. Ongoing Passed by large majorities in both houses on June 14, the support from the governor’s office will be important, Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act is expected including adequate funding for council operations to hire to be signed into law this summer. The legislation creates a highly qualified, professional staff. The Office of Smart a new land use regime for an 800,000-acre swath of forest Growth must establish the required TDR pilot program and farmland stretching across the northwestern portion expeditiously so as not to delay creation of the regional of New Jersey that is the source of drinking water for more TDR program. Finally, the environmental and planning than half of the state’s residents. The strictest measures community must work together to create the kind of focus on 390,000 acres of “core” watershed lands, where regional identity and understanding among local leaders new environmental regulations and a mandatory regional that will encourage participation in the regional plan, plan will dictate strict limits on new development. The bill especially the creation of receiving zones that will allow protects landowner equity and provides funding to local fuller land protections in watershed areas. governments whose property tax revenues will be affected. In the communities surrounding the core preservation New Jersey Future salutes bill sponsors Senator Smith, area, the regional plan will be voluntary, but incentives Senator Martin, and Assemblyman McKeon, whose for municipal participation are provided. determination and flexibility brought the bill to passage. We would like to especially thank Senator Adler, champion Throughout the legislative process, New Jersey Future of the bill’s smart growth measures. And, we commend advocated amendments that would ensure that the bill Governor McGreevey for spearheading Highlands provided both environmental protections and a framework protections, starting with creation of the Highlands for community development throughout the region. Task Force last fall. Among the law’s smart growth provisions are: 2 SMART GROWTH: NEW JERSEY’S BEST AND BRIGHTEST Eight awards for outstanding smart growth efforts

Eight redevelopment efforts that are changing the Waterfront Redevelopment Plan, face and the future of New Jersey were honored on is revitalizing the area’s abandoned May 5 at New Jersey Future’s 2004 Smart Growth buildings, fenced-off lots, and Awards Celebration. brooding piers.

Governor James E. McGreevey and several SJP Properties entered into a members of his cabinet were among the more than public/private partnership with the 300 corporate, government, and development leaders city and the Port Authority and took at the Newark Club in Newark. The event was responsibility for the office development hosted by SJP Properties and chaired by SJP of the Corporate Center. SJP Properties saw Waterfront Corporate Founder and President Steven J. Pozycki. the potential of the site and knew that the site’s Center in Hoboken proximity to a wide array of transit options New Jersey Future Chair and President of would be attractive to tenants looking to rent Elizabethtown Water Company Andrew M. high-class office space. By luring publisher John Chapman told the crowd that “saying ‘yes’ to smart Wiley & Sons from Manhattan as a tenant in the growth takes courage, it takes investment, and it first building of the Corporate Center, SJP takes great project execution. These honorees have Properties eased the path for others to follow. what it takes to say ‘yes’ to smart growth.” SJP Properties has added approximately 1 million The eight honored projects represent some of square feet of office and retail space to the economy New Jersey’s best examples of smart growth – of Hoboken and by doing so has enhanced the growth that allows existing communities to grow city’s economy, livability, and vibrancy. and thrive while simultaneously preserving New Jersey’s remaining open spaces from disappearing. CAMDEN COUNTY DIVISION OF PLANNING The 2004 Smart Growth Leadership Award Supporting partners: City of Camden, Borough of Collingswood, went to SJP Properties for its contribution to Township of Haddon, Borough of Haddonfield the redevelopment of Hoboken’s Hudson River waterfront. Accepting the award, Mr. Pozycki said, When PATCO’s High-Speed Line “Our project shows that smart growth can be opened in 1969, little attention was good for the environment, the economy, and the given to station design or how the development community. Hoboken exemplifies the stations fit into their towns; as a result, kind of growth that makes perfect sense for New the stations are largely cut off from their communities. PATCO’s High-Speed Jersey.” Mr. Pozycki is also a member of New Line in Camden County Jersey Future’s Board of Trustees. But Camden County’s Division of Planning and The 2004 Smart Growth Awards were given to the Borough of Collingswood recognized the seven projects that represent redevelopment efforts stations’ value. They pursued a grant from the across the state. Each project embodies one or NJ Department of Community Affairs to study more of the design principles outlined in New transit-oriented development at four stations – Jersey’s State Development and Redevelopment Ferry Avenue in Camden, Collingswood, Westmont Plan. Following are profiles of the 2004 winners. in Haddon, and Haddonfield – in order to attract For more information, visit www.njfuture.org. more transit riders and revitalize the towns. Smart Growth Leadership Award The study provides each community with SJP PROPERTIES conceptual site plans and renderings to help developers, public agencies and the public With the help of SJP Properties, the Waterfront understand how the public environment can be Corporate Center, the cornerstone of the Hoboken continued on page 4 3 enhanced within a transit-oriented redevelopment TOWNSHIP OF EASTAMPTON model. Model ordinances, design guidelines, and Ten years ago, the Township of Eastampton conceptual designs were provided to the towns. was growing fast. Over 40 percent of the town’s residential growth had occurred in the past 15 Each community has begun implementing the years, and the rapid development threatened the study’s recommendations. Haddon Township town’s farmland, wetlands, and forest. Fortunately, and Collingswood designated their transit nodes the Township Council recognized that these as “areas in need of redevelopment,” allowing trends had to be properly managed to ensure the towns to create redevelopment plans that the town’s character and vitality. supercede current zoning. Haddon created a business improvement district so the town could Eastampton’s 1999 farmland preservation program, charge a special assessment on properties within where residents authorized an open space tax of the district for streetscape enhancements and 23 cents per $100 assessed, was one of its bold promotions. Camden incorporated the transit- initiatives. Within four years, the amount of oriented concept plan for the Ferry Avenue permanently preserved land went from eight station as part of its Master Plan. Haddonfield percent of the town’s land area to 30 percent. enlisted the Camden County Improvement These protected lands have encouraged investment Authority to draft a redevelopment plan for in the core and have strengthened property values. its train station area. In 2003, the Township looked to residents for DRANOFF PROPERTIES, INC. ideas as to how Eastampton should grow. Using Supporting partner: Fleet Bank, a Bank of America Company some of a Smart Futures grant from the Department Camden was once a thriving center of commerce, of Community Affairs, workshops were organized The Victor Building but as its manufacturing base left the city and its gather input on how to update the downtown. in Camden population migrated to the suburbs, it lost a third Overwhelmingly, residents requested a mixed-use of its population by 2000 and its per- village center, and their input forms the basis of the capita income levels made Camden the newly adopted plan for the Village Center District. poorest municipality in the state. The plan, drafted by A. Nelessen Associates, is a blueprint for a mixed-use, pedestrian-friendly The beautiful RCA “” Building center that connects the Township’s open spaces on Camden’s waterfront, the birthplace with the rest of the community. of the Victrola , was abandoned and dilapidated, but it TOWN OF HARRISON retained many of its assets. It is one of Supporting partner: Harrison Redevelopment Agency the region’s most visible architectural Historically, Harrison’s economic engine was heavy Eastampton Township’s landmarks, it is located near multiple town center model industry, but by the late 1960s, most industry had transportation options, and it has moved out. From the 1970s to the 1990s, the town sensational views of the lost over $150 million in ratables and was faced with skyline, bridges and the river. a deteriorating and underutilized industrial area.

Fortunately, Carl Dranoff, President Harrison made the redevelopment of a riverfront of Dranoff Properties, saw the building’s brownfield area a priority, and by 1999, the Harrison potential. In October 2002, Dranoff Redevelopment Agency was up and running and began renovations at the building, looking for developers to invest in the area. In 2003, which is on the National Register of Harrison and five private developers created the Historic Places. It has since been Waterfront Redevelopment Plan. Its vision is to transformed into The Victor – a mix Harrison’s waterfront transform 250 acres of obsolete industrial facilities of luxury apartments with retail space on the first redevelopment area into a pedestrian-friendly, transit-oriented, mixed- floor. The Victor is the largest private investment use development along the Passaic River. The Plan in market-rate housing in Camden in 40 years. includes new residential units, office space, retail

4 space, an entertainment complex, and waterfront revitalization and growth. The complex’s buildings recreation areas. have been converted into an arena, senior housing, museums, shops, offices, entertainment studios, The project is already underway. To date, there are and a transit hub. Over the next three years, a five developers under contract, one of which has public school will be built on the site as well. already begun construction on a hotel that is sched- uled to open this summer. The partnership between the New Jersey Schools Construction Corporation (a subsidiary BOROUGH OF METUCHEN of the NJ Economic Development Supporting partner: Looney Ricks Kiss Authority) and the Trenton Public The Borough of Metuchen has worked for two Schools calls for the historically significant decades to maintain its town center by engaging structures on the site to be incorporated in long-range planning to address the changing into the school and the less practical demographic and land-use realities faced by structures to be demolished for many towns in the region: limited potential for playgrounds and parking. The school new development, a sharp population decrease, has been designed to be mixed-use so and downtown vacancies. it can also be used as a public space for local educational, social, political A street in Metuchen’s downtown In 1981, Metuchen partnered with a Rutgers and athletic events. University urban design studio to analyze its downtown. The study prompted Metuchen to The state named the Roebling School amend its zoning to allow residential units above as the state’s first “Renaissance School retail and change its Master Plan to encourage Zone.” These zones are part of an pedestrian traffic. initiative that combines smart growth ideals, school construction, and targeted In the mid-1990s, still faced with downtown state investment to spur private vacancies, the community created new design economic development in the and review standards. Today, the site design, neighborhoods around schools. The architectural, landscape, and streetscape of Roebling School offers a great example The Roebling School projects in Metuchen are all directed by zoning, of what can happen when state agencies, project in Trenton architectural design and landscaping guidelines, local government and school districts streetscape standards and a “streamlined” design work toward community enhancement review process that focuses on implementing the and revitalization community's vision for a traditional town center. CITY OF SALEM Metuchen has fostered the redevelopment, infill Supporting partner: Pennrose Properties, Inc. and re-use of more than 100 acres of land in its In 2000, in an effort to spur downtown. Underutilized and abandoned tracts redevelopment in town, the Salem City have been replaced with more than 200,000 Council invited Pennrose Properties to square feet of mixed-use, office, commercial and look at development opportunities in civic space, market-rate and affordable residential The Carpenter Street town. Pennrose was convinced that the Carpenter units close to the train station, and new parks neighborhood in Street neighborhood, adjacent to Main Street, Salem City and public spaces. would be a viable project.

NEW JERSEY SCHOOLS Salem City had a number of obstacles to overcome. CONSTRUCTION CORPORATION Average residential values had been declining for Supporting partner: Trenton Public Schools more than 15 years and the City had the 10th Over the past 30 years, the City of Trenton lowest per-capita income in the state. The project has worked to transform the Roebling complex area had vacancy levels approaching 50 percent industrial area into a catalyst for Trenton’s and high crime activity. Most of the area’s buildings continued on page 6 5 continued from previous page NEW JERSEY housing. The first phase of the program is FUTURE were poorly maintained rental properties already complete, and the occupancy rate owned by absentee landlords. exceeds 80 percent. The project has had a is published quarterly. ripple effect on real estate in adjacent The City designated the Carpenter Street neighborhoods – properties that once took New Jersey Future is a non- area as a redevelopment area and began more than a year to sell are now selling in profit organization founded work on a plan with Pennrose, “Salem in 1987 by concerned civic, two weeks. Vacancy rates on Main Street Historic Homes,” that called for historic environmental and dropped more than 50 percent. corporate leaders in New rehabilitation and new construction of rental Jersey to address the need to manage the state’s rapid THANK YOU TO: SPONSOR AND HOST: SJP PROPERTIES BENEFACTORS: ADVANCE REALTY GROUP • THE CHUBB CORPORATION • FLEET BANK, A BANK OF AMERICA COMPANY • GENERAL LAND growth. Today, New Jersey ABSTRACT & TITLE CO. • MERCK & CO., INC. • RIKER, DANZIG, SCHERER, HYLAND & PERRETTI LLP • VERIZON PATRONS: A.J.D. CONSTRUCTION CO., INC. • CONECTIV • ELIZABETHTOWN WATER COMPANY (DBA NEW JERSEY Future continues to advocate AMERICAN WATER COMPANY) • K HOVNANIAN ENTERPRISES, INC. • MATRIX DEVELOPMENT GROUP • PSE&G • SCARINCI & HOLLENBECK, LLC • SHARBELL DEVELOPMENT CORP. LEADERS: CLARKE CATON HINTZ • THE COLUMBIA for planning, conservation GROUP • COZEN O'CONNOR, ATTORNEYS • DRANOFF PROPERTIES • ECOLSCIENCES, INC. • GIBBONS, DEL DEO, GRIFFINGER & VECCHIONE • HARRISON COMMONS • HELLER INDUSTRIAL PARKS, INC. • HILL INTERNATIONAL, INC. and economic development KEAN UNIVERSITY • LCOR, INC. • LONG ISLAND HOTELS • MARAZITI, FALCON & HEALEY, LLP • MCCARTER & ENGLISH, ATTORNEYS AT LAW • PAULUS, SOKOLOWSKI & SARTOR • PENNROSE PROPERTIES, INC. • PNC BANK policies that will help create REMINGTON & VERNICK ENGINEERS • STEINER & ASSOCIATES • TOLL BROTHERS, INC. • JOHN WILEY & SONS FRIENDS: ATLANTIC REALTY DEVELOPMENT CORP. • SENATOR JON CORZINE • GREENBAUM ROWE SMITH RAVIN DAVIS a sustainable future. & HIMMEL • HILL WALLACK, ATTORNEYS AT LAW • HEYER, GRUEL & ASSOCIATES • INFINEUM USA, LP • KITCHEN & ASSOC. ARCHITECTURAL SERVICES, P.A. • LANGAN ENGINEERING • LOONEY RICKS KISS ARCHITECTS • LOURDES Barbara L. Lawrence HEALTH SYSTEMS • MANNINGTON MILLS INC. • METRO STARS • METUCHEN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE • DAVID AND MARY MOORE • NELESSEN ASSOCIATES • NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER • ORLOFF, LOWENBACH, Executive Director STIFELMAN& SIEGEL, PA • PARAMOUNT HOMES • PARKER, MCCAY & CRISCUOLO, P.A. • PORT AUTHORITY OF NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY • SCHOOR DE PALMA • THE STAUBACH COMPANY • TRC RAYMOND KEYES • TURNER CONSTRUCTION • UNITED WATER • WILENTZ, GOLDMAN & SPITZER P.A. • WINDELS MARX LANE & MITTENDORF, LLP • WOODMONT PROPERTIES Samuel M. Hamill, Jr. Senior Consultant

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Chris Sturm Project Director A Celebration of Smart Growth in Southern New Jersey Remembering Neil and Mimi Upmeyer

Address editorial New Jersey Future has had only one husband and wife team on correspondence to: our Board of Trustees: Mimi and Neil Upmeyer. Mimi Upmeyer New Jersey Future was a founding board member of New Jersey Future. She came 137 W. Hanover Street to us from her volunteer work with the League of Women Voter Trenton, NJ 08618 where she had honed her passion for good government and 609/393-0008 environmental protection. She helped shape our organization fax 609/393-1189 and its mission in fundamental ways that we still follow today. You may reach us on the After several years of service, Mimi left the board to go to work Internet by sending e-mail full time for environmental protection. Shortly thereafter, her to: [email protected] husband, Neil, joined our board. Neil had overseen the first- Or visit our web site at ever New Jersey poll on land use while he was at the Gallup www.njfuture.org Organization, and he shared Mimi’s passions for good government and environmental protection. Neil was a powerful voice of Articles in New Jersey Future On June 22, New Jersey Future held another Smart Growth Awards reception reason and he repeatedly took principled stances on important do not necessarily reflect the in Collingswood to congratulate this year’s winners from . The event was sponsored by Conectiv. Pictured here at the event are: Bob issues of public policy. He had high standards and expected that views of all board members. Marshall from Conectiv, Collingswood Mayor Jim Maley, Don Bitterlich from we would live up to them. Mimi died last fall; Neil died this Dranoff Properties, Eastampton Mayor George Johnstone, and Salem May PRINTED ON 100% RECYCLED PAPER, or Earl Gage. spring. We go on, better for having had our lives, our organization, 75% POST CONSUMER, USING and our state touched by the Upmeyers. VEGETABLE-BASED INKS.

DESIGN: FUZZY DICE DESIGN 6 TDR: Transferring Development Rights to Stop Sprawl Implementing a TDR program isn’t always easy, but the results are worth the areas are equipped to accommodate new development by targeting infrastructure effort, according to a panel of three TDR experts who spoke at New Jersey Future’s investments in those areas and creating clear-cut community plans. May 26 Members & Friends event in New Brunswick. In his work with the Township of Chesterfield, Phil Caton knows first-hand how to The panel included: Jim Tripp, general counsel at Environmental Defense and chair create a TDR program in a New Jersey town. Chesterfield, a rural municipality in of the Long Island TDR Bank; John Stokes, executive director of the New Jersey Burlington County, has already used TDR, thanks to Burlington County’s countywide Pinelands Commission; and Phil Caton, a partner in the Trenton-based architecture TDR trial program. and planning firm Clarke Caton Hintz, and the consulting planner for Chesterfield Chesterfield was able to direct future growth in town to a new town center – a Township’s TDR program. They explained how to use New Jersey’s new TDR law to 560-acre “receiving area” – sized and zoned to accommodate all of the township’s the crowd of some 50 people, including state and county officials, developers, remaining development capacity with a variety of housing, shops, services, a non-profits, and concerned citizens. school, and other uses. Developers have responded by purchasing development The Governor signed the new TDR Law into law in March. Armed with this new rights from the owners of farmland surrounding the new planned village, allowing smart growth tool, towns that want to preserve open spaces and revitalize communities the town to grow while simultaneously preserving its rural character. now can allow the transfer of development rights from historic, natural, or farming Mr. Caton worked with the town to plan for its future development in its town center areas to other areas where construction is desired to places where the development and stressed the importance of proactive planning in these receiving areas. “In can enrich the existing community or region. Chesterfield, developers have been interested in the program because they are “TDR is not for the weak-hearted,” said Jim Tripp, “Technically and politically, these interested in taking full advantage of the infrastructure investments and land-use programs are difficult to do, but the results can be marvelous. From an environmental planning in the town center,” he said. perspective, you can save land, especially in New Jersey where there aren’t enough He also highlighted the importance of a healthy real estate market in a successful public acquisition dollars to do so. TDR programs also absorb development pressure, TDR program. “In a voluntary TDR program, there has to be the market dynamic in allowing towns to channel and control their development. TDR can provide a legal place where developers are interested in making this transfer,” he noted. basis for restrictions on land development.” Mr. Caton concluded, “TDR is not a way to stop growth, it’s a way to manage growth. John Stokes, spoke of his experience in the Pinelands, which has had its own TDR Based on the Chesterfield experience, it’s a highly effective way to manage growth.” program for years. He stressed the importance of ensuring balance between the “sending” areas (areas targeted for preservation) and the “receiving” areas (areas For more information on TDR, see New Jersey Future’s 4-page brief: targeted for development) – saying there must be enough development pressure in http://njfuture.org/articles/election2003.html. the receiving areas to create a market for the development rights that are available. For more information on New Jersey Future’s Members & Friends events, visit: He also stressed that for TDR success, municipalities must make sure receiving http://njfuture.org/articles/membersfriends.html.

PRODUCTS FROM NEW JERSEY FUTURE Smart Growth Recommendations Series development; it costs more in money, because the per-capita costs of providing roads, These four-page briefs look at current development or preservation issues and offer sewers and services like police and fire increase as people spread out; and it costs more policy recommendations for helping New Jersey grow smarter. Upcoming issue in time, because it inhibits options like public transit, walking and biking that reduce briefs include: commutes and traffic congestion.

Streamlining Permitting Watch for “Race to the Middle,” a research report on what density is costing New Jersey, Smart Conservation later this summer. It will be available online at www.njfuture.org. Migration patterns across New Jersey counties The full series is available online at www.njfuture.org.

Coming Soon: “Race to the Middle” Healthy “Where” we grow gets the lion's share of attention in New Jersey, but “how” we grow is Society Environment a equally important to conserving land and a high quality of life. sustainable New Jersey Future’s state In the past 50 years, New Jersey's development patterns have drifted away from the mission is to promote Just Efficient a strong economy, a healthy “ends” of the density range – the compact towns and rural landscapes – and instead natural environment and a just Economy towards a "middle" density of suburban sprawl. This middle density is costing us: it costs society for ourselves and for more in land because homes and workplaces take up more space than in compact future generations. NEW JERSEY FUTURE THANKS: AT&T • CHARLES EDISON FUND • THE HYDE AND WATSON FOUNDATION JOHANETTE WALLERSTEIN INSTITUTE • MARAZITI, FALCON & HEALEY, L.L.P. • SUMNER GERARD FOUNDATION JAMES AIBEL & BEVERLY SAVAGE • APPLIED WATER MANAGEMENT, INC. • ANN BABINEAU • FRED BADO • FRANK BANISCH • ROBERT BENECKE • MARTIN A. & JOAN BIERBAUM • BOROUGH OF METUCHEN • GLENN & SUSAN BRILL • TIMOTHY A. BRILL • THOMAS CAHILL • THOMAS J. CALU • CAMDEN COUNTY IMPROVEMENT AUTHORITY • CASWELL COOKE, AIA • CHARLES M. CHAPIN • ANDREW M. CHAPMAN • MARGARET CHAVOOSHIAN • ANTHONY J. CIMINO • CITY OF EAST ORANGE • IRVING E. COHEN • LOUISE COLE HENRY A. COLEMAN, PH.D • LEONARD J. COLNER • COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NJ • COMMUNITY PRESERVATION CORP. • WILLIAM D. DANA, JR. • ROBERT DANNHAUSER • JOHN J. DEGNAN • EILEEN DELLAVOLLE • TIM DELORM • MICHELLE DORAN-MCBEAN • SALLY DUDLEY • ROBERT EBNER • EDWARDS & CALDWELL, LLC • ENVIRONMENTAL RESOLUTIONS, INC. • GUSTAV E. ESCHER III • JOHN H. ESKILSON • ETHICON, INC. • SUSAN & HENRY FARBER • FRANK & GLORIA FINGER • GARY FINGER • CAREN S. FRANZINI • LEAH C. FUREY • BHARAT GAMI, AIA • ROBERT GEDDES • C.H. COSTER GERARD • JAMES G. & KATHLEEN W. GILBERT • MORTON GOLDFEIN MARK W. GORDON • ROBERT GRAFF • WANDA GUNNING • HATCH MOTT MACDONALD • HOK, INC. • HOY STRUCTURAL SERVICES, INC. • SHING-FU HSUEH • SAMUEL G. HUBER • JOHN & JANE JENNINGS • RICHARD F.X. JOHNSON • JOHNSON & JOHNSON • GARY KAPLAN • DONALD KIRCHHOFFER • BETH KITCHEN • LAUREL KORNFELD • ROBERT KULL • WESTMINSTER LAND DEVELOPMENT LLC JANET LARSON • SUSAN & PETER LEDERMAN • MASER CONSULTING P.A. • SANDRA L. MATSEN • LESLIE MCGOWAN • PEGGY MCNEILL MEDINA CONSULTANTS, P.C. • ROBERT F. MELVIN • MRS. G.W. MERCK • METROVEST EQUITIES, INC. • MONMOUTH CONSERVATION FOUNDATION • RICHARD H. MORGAN • PAM MOUNT • ROBIN LUNDIN MURRAY • NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE NEW JERSEY WATER SUPPLY AUTHORITY • NORTH HUDSON COMMUNITY ACTION CORP. • JAMES O’BRIEN • JOSEPH O’NEILL ANTHONY AND LYNN ORSINI • PENNONI ASSOCIATES, INC. • MARC PFEIFFER • RICHARD POLTON • JOAN PONESSA • POSEN ARCHITECTS, LLC • PROFESSIONAL PLANNING & ENGINEERING CORP. • PRESERVATION NJ, INC. • PRINCETON UNIVERSITY • PUBLIC PRIVATE STRATEGY GROUP • YOLANDA QUITMAN • MICHAEL REDPATH • INGRID & MARVIN REED • DONALD RICHARDSON • RICHARD ROPER STEVEN W. ROSS • JOHN SCHILP • VIRGINIA SCHOONMAKER • R. EDWIN SELOVER • KEVIN SHANLEY • SILLS CUMMIS LAW FIRM RANDALL SOLOMON • JONATHAN D. SPRINGER, PH.D. • LINDA STAMATO • CANDACE L. STRAIGHT • TOWN OF HARRISON TOWNSHIP OF EASTAMPTON • BRIAN L. TRELSTAD • UNION COUNTY ALLIANCE • PETER I. VOROS • DONALD WHEELER

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