Working for Smart Growth:
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Achieving Genuine Prosperity

Achieving Genuine Prosperity

Achieving Genuine Prosperity

20 Ways To Move New Jersey Toward A More Prosperous, Just and Healthy Future

The problems New Jersey faces at the moment are too large for any single community to overcome on its own. In fact, well-intentioned local leaders are often responding to state policies regarding land use and taxation that are beyond local control.

New Jersey’s State Development and Redevelopment Plan addresses all these issues. It is the best tool in hand for accomplishing smart growth, but it has languished without implementation by state officials, who fail to use it consistently in their spending and rule-making, and by local officials, who have frequently ignored its guidance in local planning decisions and zoning.

Following eight years of economic growth, albeit unequal, we have an opportunity to address the issues holding us back from genuine prosperity.

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Ingrid Reed For Our Future Fund

 

Our New Jersey Future board of trustees, our staff, and our community, honors Ingrid’s legacy with the Ingrid Reed For our Future Fund, supporting education and training for future Smart Growth leaders with a particular focus on diversifying the field.

 

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