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This Week in Land Use

Friday, July 16th, 2010

Each Friday Garden State Smart Growth will post a collection of links to news articles pertaining to land use in New Jersey. We try our best to capture all relevant stories, but we’re not perfect. Let us know in the comments if we’ve missed anything.

Saturday, 7/10/10- Funding for new open space grants is cut with […]

This Week in Land Use

Friday, July 9th, 2010

Each Friday Garden State Smart Growth will post a collection of links to news articles pertaining to land use in New Jersey. We try our best to capture all relevant stories, but we’re not perfect. Let us know in the comments if we’ve missed anything.

Saturday, 7/3/10- Cranbury warehouse complex gets preliminary OK (Star-Ledger)
Sunday, 7/4/10- To […]

New Tunnel Could Transform NJ’s Landscape … And Brighten its Economic Prospects

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

The ARC tunnel, and the resulting service expansions and improvements, has the potential to fundamentally alter New Jersey’s landscape in the coming decades.

This Week in Land Use

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

Each Friday Garden State Smart Growth will post a collection of links to news articles pertaining to land use in New Jersey.

Saturday, 6/26/10- Port Authority plans for Bayonne’s MOT land and Global Terminal getting big thumbs up from dock workers, who wanted more jobs all […]

This Week in Land Use

Friday, June 25th, 2010

Each Friday Garden State Smart Growth will post a collection of links to news articles pertaining to land use in New Jersey. We try our best to capture all relevant stories, but we’re not perfect. Let us know in the comments if we’ve missed anything.

Saturday, 6/19/10- Wind farms don’t hurt wildlife, New Jersey Department of […]

DEP Announces New Initiative to Combat Transportation Emissions

Friday, June 18th, 2010

Source: georgetownclimate.org
Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Bob Martin announced yesterday that New Jersey is joining 10 other states and the District of Columbia to form the Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI), “a regional group that aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through transportation improvements and efficiencies.”
Curtailing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from transportation will be essential if New […]

This Week in Transportation

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

With affordable housing reform and budget negotiations in full swing in Trenton, transportation has taken a bit of a back seat in the media lately. However several recent articles, op-eds and editorials are a reminder that
Source: TONY KURDZUK/THE STAR-LEDGER
there is a lot going on regarding transportation and transportation funding in New Jersey. And with the […]

This Week in Land Use

Friday, June 11th, 2010

Each Friday Garden State Smart Growth will post a collection of links to news articles pertaining to land use in New Jersey. We try our best to capture all relevant stories, but we’re not perfect. Let us know in the comments if we’ve missed anything.

Monday, 6/7/10- Final hearing on Valley plan tonight (Bergen Record)
Monday, 6/7/10- […]

New Jersey Future Statement on S1

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

Senator Ray Lesniak. Source: Press of Atlantic City

The following statement was issued by Peter Kasabach, Executive Director of New Jersey Future, on June 10, 2010, following the passage of S-1 in the New Jersey Senate:
“We have little doubt that the good folks looking to re-shape the state’s affordable-housing policy are […]

Could NJ’s Depleted Trust Fund Jeopardize Federal Funding for ARC?

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

Source: arctunnel.com
That is the question posed by Phillip Barbara in a guest column in yesterday’s Star-Ledger. With New Jersey’s Transportation Trust Fund nearly broke, and no solution on the horizon, Barbara suggests that the federal government may be leery of committing to a “full funding agreement” of nearly $3 billion that had been expected. In all, […]

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