Working for Smart Growth:
More Livable Places and Open Spaces
Mothers In New Jersey
Hallmark alone offers a choice of 2,375 different Mother Day card designs this year.
Yet whether they are seniors or new to motherhood, New Jersey’s mothers (and their families) face a shrinking choice of where to live.
More than half of New Jersey’s communities (299) have expired plans, or no plans at […]
The Sarnoff Corporation in West Windsor this month announced plans to transform its rolling 335-acre campus into a 12-building office park.
Spillover Sprawl
The newest frontier of New Jersey suburbanization is actually in northeastern Pennsylvania.
The population of Monroe County, Pa. grew by 34 percent in the past decade; Pike County, Pa. grew by a whopping 48 percent. New Jersey’s fastest growing county, Somerset, grew by a comparatively “meager” 20 percent.
Both Pennsylvania counties are served by […]
Oregon has statewide zoning for farmland (16.4 million acres) and private forest land (8.7 million acres). This zoning protects about 40,000 square miles from development – an area about the size of Indiana. New Jersey has no farm or forest zoning.
In contrast to the millions of acres it protects from development, Oregon has set […]
Merrill Lynch and Hopewell Township
The first phase of a new Merrill Lynch office complex is scheduled to open in October in rural Hopewell Township. The 1-million square feet of new buildings is equivalent in size to 10 Home Depot stores.
The newly opened campus will draw 3,500 employees a day, or nearly a quarter […]
New Jersey Development
79 percent of New Jersey voters say we should stop building so many shopping centers. Some 56 percent feel there’s too much development of all kinds.
84 percent agree that “We are fast running out of land in New Jersey, and it’s time to save the land that’s left for open space.”
(Results of […]
Seven in 10 New Jerseyans feel the Jersey Shore is at risk from development. Nearly two-thirds would prefer to have shore development managed by a state plan.
New Jersey has more lane miles of highway per square mile than any other state except Rhode Island.
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