Working for Smart Growth:
More Livable Places and Open Spaces
image source: The Atlantic
In the June 2010 issue of the Atlantic, contributor Christopher Lineberger argues in “Here Comes the Neighborhood” that the recent plunge in housing prices hasn’t affected walkable neighborhoods in urban and inner-suburban areas to the same extent as elsewhere. Demand for in-town housing will increase in the future, he […]
photo source: Resurgence City
A few months ago, New Jersey Future looked at residential building permit data and found that New Jersey’s urban centers were faring better, relative to the rest of the state, in permit activity over the 2003-2008 period, mirroring a trend at the national level.
The same seems to be true of jobs. Between […]
The ARC tunnel, and the resulting service expansions and improvements, has the potential to fundamentally alter New Jersey’s landscape in the coming decades.
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 […]
Six projects and plans, ranging from an innovative transfer-of-development-rights plan in Gloucester County to a creative neighborhood affordable-housing project in Jersey City, have been selected to receive 2010 Smart Growth Awards from New Jersey Future. Winners are selected from a statewide public nomination process by an independent jury of professional developers, architects, planners […]
Last year, then-Governor Corzine went to Woodbury to proclaim his support for the extension of PATCO rail service to Gloucester County. More important, he committed $500 million from the state’s Transportation Trust Fund (yes, that Transportation Trust Fund) toward the estimated $1.6 billion project. New Jersey Future has long supported the project, not only for the […]
Join us on Wednesday, June 2!
The Smart Growth Awards celebration is considered one of the state’s premier networking events and an occasion that draws wide media attention. We expect another well-attended ceremony with more than 300 development industry professionals, as well as local, regional, and state leaders. Since 2002, New Jersey Future has honored smart […]
The following op-ed by NJ Future Executive Director Peter Kasabach was published in the Asbury Park Press, the Bergen Record, the Trenton Times and New Jersey Newsroom recently:
New Jersey Future Executive Director Peter Kasabach
Gov. Chris Christie’s Red Tape Review Group made headlines last week with a report that catalogued many of the often redundant, […]
In New Jersey, oftentimes it is municipal opposition, not developer disinterest, that can stymie transit-oriented development and other types of smart growth.
Every NJ county is in a metropolitan area
In an article in the Wall Street Journal (“The Metro Moment”) last week, the Brookings Institution’s Bruce Katz drew attention to the importance of metropolitan areas to the nation’s economic activity:
The real heart of the American economy lies in the top […]
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