Working for Smart Growth:
More Livable Places and Open Spaces
A recent study commissioned by the Council on Affordable Housing found that:
Of New Jersey’s 4.98 million acres, 1.24 million (25 percent) are vacant and unconstrained.
These vacant acres have the capacity for 1,169,697 residential housing units and 1.63 billion square feet of non-residential space.
Redevelopment of older housing and former commercial and industrial sites will produce an […]
Source: NJDEP
A 2002 snapshot of New Jersey’s landscape shows the state divided roughly into quarters: 28 percent is developed, 24 percent permanently preserved with public funds, 23 percent undevelopable or constrained by regulation, and 25 percent vacant and unconstrained—or “up for grabs.
The race for open space continues: Development consumed 15,000 acres per year on […]
New Jersey is currently home to more than 800 active and closed landfills. Together, these landfills cover more than 10,500 acres—an area twice the size of the city of Trenton, and equal to eight months’ worth of new land development for the entire state (using the development rate of approximately 15,000 acres a year between […]
Just over three years ago, the State Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) Act was signed into law, authorizing municipalities across New Jersey to adopt programs to “transfer” potential development from conservation areas to designated growth areas, typically at higher densities than would otherwise be permitted. TDR thus provides towns with an alternative to zoning for […]
New Jersey voters will consider a ballot question on November 7 about additional funding for parks. Ballot question #2 asks voters whether or not to amend the state constitution to create an ongoing, stable source of funding for capital repairs, improvements, construction, and renovation of New Jersey’s state, county, and local parks and natural areas.
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This report highlights how development has affected water resources in the Pinelands growth areas and what can be done to minimize its future negative impacts.
Governor Jon Corzine’s economic development team is seeking input into a five-year strategic business plan, intended to improve the state’s business climate and encourage economic growth.
A first draft of the plan is expected at the end of March.
New Jersey already has a long-term business plan designed to guide growth and investment: the State Development and […]
Rising seas could not only shift today’s shoreline inland by 240 to 480 feet by the year 2100.
State leaders can help by changing the policies that make it easier and cheaper to develop our greenfields than to rebuild our older suburbs and cities.
Without new ways of managing growth and without fixing the systems that drive development, including the property tax system, New Jersey will never reach genuine prosperity.
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