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Communities in Transition: Anticipating Restoration Of Communities in Transition: Anticipating Restoration of Passenger Rail Service on the West Trenton Line The October 2005 New Jersey Mayors’ Institute on Community Design TABLE OF CONTENTS Program Structure Ewing Township Montgomery Township 1 8 14 Case Studies Hopewell Township Hillsborough Township 6 10 16 Hopewell Borough Bridgewater Township 12 18 New Jersey ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Committee Regional Plan Association The New Jersey Mayor’s Institute on Co-Chairman, New Regional Plan Association (RPA) is an independent, Community Design is a program organized by Jersey Committee not-for-profit regional planning organization that RPA with the assistance of the N.J. Office of Smart Christopher J. Daggett improves the quality of life and the economic Growth (OSG) to promote and implement better Co-Chairman, New Jersey Committee competitiveness of the 31-county New York-New design and planning in communities throughout The Honorable Jersey-Connecticut region through research, New Jersey. Major funders include the New Jersey James J. Florio planning, and advocacy. For more than 80 years, Department of Community Affairs and the Bunbury RPA has been shaping transportation systems, Company. Additional support was received from Karen D. Alexander protecting open spaces, and promoting better com- the N.J. State League of Municipalities, and the N.J. Philip Beachem munity design for the region’s continued growth. Chapter of the American Planning Association. We William E. Best We anticipate the challenges the region will face in also thank Merrill Lynch for providing financial John Bloomfield the years to come, and we mobilize the region’s civic, assistance for the publication of this report. Fred M. Brody business, and government sectors to take action. The 2005 New Jersey Mayors’ Institute was Stephanie Bush- The nation’s most influential independent made possible by the participation and support of a Baskette regional planning organization since 1922, RPA has number of individuals. We extend our gratitude to Brant B. Cali a storied history but is more relevant than ever in the mayors and their staffs for their time, attention John F. Ciaffone the 21st Century. RPA’s First Plan in 1929 provided and interest; Commissioner Susan Bass Levin from Timothy R. Comerford the blueprint for the transportation and open space the N.J. Department of Community Affairs for Carol C. Cronheim networks that we take for granted today. The Second her continued support of the program; Director Clive S. Cummis Plan, completed in 1968, was instrumental in restor- Pamela Hersh and Blanche Scioli, from Princeton Jerry F. English ing our deteriorated mass transit system, preserving University – Office of Community and State Affairs; Pamela Fischer threatened natural resources and revitalizing our and Executive Director Maura K. McManimon Urs P. Gauchat Robert L. Geddes urban centers. Released in 1996, RPA’s Third and Director of Planning Paul Drake from the N.J. Robert S. Goldsmith Regional Plan, “A Region at Risk,” warned that new Office of Smart Growth. In addition, RPA thanks George Hampton global trends had fundamentally altered New York’s Dr. Martin Bierbaum and the staff at the Municipal Charles E. Hance national and global position. The plan called for Land Use Center at the College of New Jersey for David J. Harris building a seamless 21st century mass transit system, hosting a meeting for mayors prior to the Institute. Pamela Hersh creating a three-million acre Greensward network Special thanks go to Keynote Speaker Shelley J. Robert Hillier of protected natural resource systems, maintaining Poticha, President of Reconnecting America, and Deborah Hoffman half the region’s employment in urban centers, and the Resource Team members for the October 2005 James Hsu assisting minority and immigrant communities to Mayors’ Institute: Vivian E. Baker, Assistant Director Barbara E. Kauffman fully participate in the economic mainstream. for Transit Friendly Land Use & Development Dennis J. Krumholz RPA’s current work is aimed largely at imple- Capital Planning, and Senior Director for Project Susan S. Lederman menting the ideas put forth in the Third Regional Development Jack Kanarek, New Jersey Transit; Brent Richard C. Leone Plan, with efforts focused in five project areas: C. Barnes, AICP/PP, Director of Transportation Joseph J. Maraziti, Jr. community design, open space, transportation, Systems Planning, NJDOT; Alan R. Goodheart, Anthony L. Marchetta workforce and the economy, and housing. ASLA; Mark W. Gordon, Gordon Consulting Theresa Marshall Services; Anton Nelessen, Principal, A. Nelessen Eileen McGinnis Project staff Associates, Inc.; Carlos Rodrigues, AICP/PP, John L. McGoldrick Robert D. Yaro, President, RPA Director – Princeton Office, Looney Ricks Kiss Sean T. Monaghan Thomas K. Wright, Executive Vice President, RPA Architects; and Darius Sollohub, Assistant Professor Christopher J. Paladino Thomas G. Dallessio, AICP/PP, Vice President & Associate Director – School of Architecture, Rebecca Perkins Jeffrey M. Pollock and NJ Director, RPA Masters of Infrastructure Planning Program Lee Porter Robert Lane, Director, at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Ingrid W. Reed Regional Design Programs, RPA RPA extends additional thanks to the follow- Donald C. Richardson Jeffrey M. Zupan, ing graduate students for their work in the Land Carlos Rodrigues Senior Fellow for Transportation, RPA Use Planning class at the New Jersey Institute of Ciro A. Scalera David Kooris, Associate Planner, RPA Technology in the Spring of 2006, which further Ronald J. Slember Sasha Corchado, Project Manager, RPA investigated the challenges, constraints and opportuni- Sharon C. Taylor Celeste Layne, Junior Planner ties of lands surrounding the potential stops along Jeffrey A. Warsh Jeff Ferzoco, Senior Designer, RPA the West Trenton Line: Carolina Castro, Chris Elnardo J. Webster II Jeremy Soffin, Vice President, Public Affairs, RPA Cosenza, Anthony D’Agosta, Joseph Fassacesia, Siiri Melanie Willoughby Carlos Rodrigues AICP/PP, Director, Julianus, Madhavi Patel, Kyle Rendall, Dawrell Rich, Princeton Office, Looney Ricks Kiss Amee Shah, Reema Singh and Chetasee Trivedi. Ewing Township Montgomery Township 8 14 Hopewell Township Hillsborough Township 10 16 Hopewell Borough Bridgewater Township 12 18 Hopewell Township (Mercer County), Highland PROGRAM STRUCTURE Park, Hightstown, Hope, Lambertville, Lawrence Township, Lindenwold, Lumberton, Maplewood, Modeled on the national Mayors’ Institute on Merchantville, Metuchen, Montgomery, Mount City Design, the New Jersey Institute provides Holly, New Milford, Old Bridge, Oxford Township, a multi-day retreat for six mayors and a resource Paterson, Plainfield, Pleasantville, Princeton team of design and planning professionals. The Borough, Princeton Township, Prospect Park, Red mayors present planning and design issues that Bank, River Vale, Rutherford, Somerville, South each community is facing, and then participate in Amboy, South Bound Brook, Stafford, Tinton a wide-ranging discussion. While addressing the Falls, Vineland, Washington Township (Bergen specific concerns raised by the mayors, the resource County), West Amwell, and West Windsor. team members also describe in broader terms how they have approached similar problems. Using June 2005 Mayoral Participants examples from other communities, the mayors and Hon. Patricia Flannery, Bridgewater Township resource team members learn from each other. Hon. Wendell Pribila, Ewing Township (represented The Mayors’ Institute offers public officials the by James McManimon, Township Administrator) rare opportunity to discuss a planning issue facing Hon. Paul Drake, Committeeman, their communities with a group of peers and some of Hillsborough Township the most respected designers and planners in the coun- Hon. David R. Nettles, Hopewell Borough try. These institutes focus particular attention on the Hon. Arlene Kemp, Hopewell Township relationship between community planning and public Hon. Louise Wilson, Montgomery Township health, and how better design and development can create healthy, livable communities. Experts in public Resource Team Presentations health participate in the Institute discussions, provid- Each Institute includes presentations by members ing presentations and analyses of how alternative devel- of the resource team. These presentations introduce opment patterns impact the health of communities. the mayors to the concepts of community design, This N.J. Mayors’ Institute program was held at educate them in the tools employed by professional Princeton University on October 20th – 23rd, 2005. planners, and frame the subsequent discussion. Organized specifically for neighboring towns along the West Trenton Rail Corridor (also know as the Anton “Tony” Nelessen leads the Princeton-based Somerset-Mercer Extension), this special Mayors’ firm A. Nelessen Associates, which provides plan- Institute focused on opportunities for better land-use ning and architectural design services around the planning and design in anticipation of potential world. Tony’s presentation acquainted the mayors reactivation of passenger rail service on the West with key concepts of community design, as well Trenton Line. This Institute focused particular atten- as the trend for communities around the world to tion on the challenges and opportunities such transit plan for higher density development around transit service poses for these municipalities, as well as how facilities. In growing countries like China
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