One of the best places to encourage growth and redevelopment is near train stations and transit hubs.
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Development and Transit Towns
Monday, March 31st, 2003Impact 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.
Finding Room for 1 Million New Residents
Friday, February 28th, 2003There is no denying redevelopment’s enormous potential for accommodating new residents and businesses without taking away open lands.
Saving on Gas By Design
Thursday, February 13th, 2003Smart growth means growing our communities in a way that restores travel options not available in sprawling development. It means less traffic on our roads, less gas in our tanks – and a higher quality of life.
State Budgets and Spending For Development
Friday, January 31st, 2003Smart growth – and smart budgeting – means encouraging development where infrastructure already exists or can be easily extended, to maximize the investments we’ve already made in our communities and homes, and to spare our open lands.
Vacant Housing Tells Sprawl Story, Too
Friday, January 17th, 2003High home vacancies, failing schools and neglected infrastructure in many older communities are all testament to the consequences of sprawling development, which pulls needed investment, jobs and residents from existing communities, speeding their decline; and making sprawling development seem the only logical choice.
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.
Buying Land Not Only Way to Protect It
Thursday, November 14th, 2002New Jersey’s land use law expressly empowers municipalities to zone land for agriculture, and to restrict its development in ecologically sensitive areas.
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.
Summit Touches Key Causes of Sprawl
Thursday, October 31st, 2002This over-dependence on property taxes forces New Jersey municipalities to chase new development or “ratables,” and make their land use choices on unbalanced fiscal reasoning, spurring sprawl.