Growth pressures in the Highlands are likely to intensify under a proposed Highlands bill that would limit development on nearly 400,000 acres of critical watershed lands.
Regional Planning
Census Confirms Highlands Growth Pressures
Friday, April 30th, 2004Growth and the Highlands
Friday, February 13th, 2004True growth management success in the Highlands depends upon establishment of a regional planning group of state and local interests, with authority to create opportunities for new housing and economic development by steering development from environmentally sensitive areas to clearly designated areas where growth makes sense.
Impact Fees and Sprawl
Friday, March 21st, 2003To promote smarter growth, impact fees should be used to impede growth where it is not desired, consistent with the state’s blueprint for smart growth, the State Development and Redevelopment Plan.
Cyanamid Site and Tax-Sharing
Friday, December 13th, 2002Tax sharing means communities share the tax benefits of new development with their neighbors just as they already share the negative spillover effects of development, including increased traffic, pollution and loss of open land.
Protecting the Highlands
Thursday, November 14th, 2002New Jersey’s Highlands region is recognized as a landscape of national significance by the federal government and as special resource areaî by the New Jersey State Plan.
New Jersey’s “Principal Cities” Now Include Suburbs
Wednesday, March 14th, 2001The Metro “A” List
New Jersey’s “principal cities” for the new decade will include the lesser-known cities of Vineland, Millville, Bridgeton and Pleasantville, when last week’s 2000 Census population figures are subjected to new federal standards for naming major metropolitan areas.
A few large suburban centers would also make the Garden State’s “principal cities” list – […]
