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Archive for June, 2010
This Week in Land Use
Friday, June 25th, 2010DEP Announces New Initiative to Combat Transportation Emissions
Friday, June 18th, 2010Department 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 […]
If New Jersey Were a Country …
Thursday, June 17th, 2010Only four countries in the world are more urbanized than New Jersey, where the population density is 10 times that of the United States as a whole.
This Week in Transportation
Thursday, June 17th, 2010With affordable housing reform and budget negotiations in full swing in Trenton, transportation has taken a bit of a back seat in the media lately. However several recent articles, op-eds and editorials are a reminder that there is a lot […]
This Week in Land Use
Friday, June 11th, 2010Each Friday Garden State Smart Growth will post a collection of links to news articles pertaining to land use in New Jersey. We try our best to capture all relevant stories, but we’re not perfect. Let us know in the […]
New Jersey Future Statement on S1
Thursday, June 10th, 2010The following statement was issued by Peter Kasabach, Executive Director of New Jersey Future, on June 10, 2010, following the passage of S-1 in the New Jersey Senate: “We have little doubt that the good folks looking to re-shape the […]
Could NJ’s Depleted Trust Fund Jeopardize Federal Funding for ARC?
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010That is the question posed by Phillip Barbara in a guest column in yesterday’s Star-Ledger. With New Jersey’s Transportation Trust Fund nearly broke, and no solution on the horizon, Barbara suggests that the federal government may be leery of committing to […]
This Week in Land Use
Friday, June 4th, 2010Each Friday Garden State Smart Growth will post a collection of links to news articles pertaining to land use in New Jersey. We try our best to capture all relevant stories, but we’re not perfect. Let us know in the […]
Trenton and Jersey City Receive HOPE VI grants from HUD
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010Of the six cities that were awarded a total of $113.6 million in the latest round of grants for the HOPE VI program administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), two were in New Jersey. Trenton […]