Cities and Towns
Smart growth means taking advantage of infrastructure that already exists, capitalizing on the streets and sidewalks, the water pipes and sewer systems, the central business districts, the residential neighborhoods, the parks and recreational facilities that give established cities and towns their distinct identities and attractions.
Directing future investment to these centers, both large and small, will ensure that we use our land most efficiently and effectively, preserve the surrounding open space and halt the spread of suburban sprawl. Revitalizing our urban areas through redevelopment, and enhancing our towns by preserving community character, design and historic features, and creating walkable spaces, a vibrant mix of uses and a range of housing options, will make New Jersey a truly sustainable state..
New Jersey could gain another million residents in the next 30 years. Based on the population trend in New Jersey’s urban areas, more than half of them could be accommodated in our cities without having to disturb a single acre of new land.
New Jersey Future’s reaction to Gov. Christie’s State of the State address.
A new survey shows that office workers in the Garden State want many of the amenities that smart-growth locations offer, including food, access to transit, and access to downtowns.
In addition to winning a New Jersey Future Smart Growth Award, Byram Township has also won a national technical-assistance grant for its planned Village Center.
New census county and municipal data for New Jersey show a slowdown in migration, the continued resilience of the state’s cities, and new frontiers of sprawl in the southern part of the state.
This redevelopment project turned a decaying art deco office tower into luxury rental apartments, constituting the first new luxury housing built in downtown Newark in more than 45 years and promising to help mark a new era of vitality and economic activity for the state’s largest city.
A planned annex to New Jersey City University’s (NJCU) main campus, the 21-acre NJCU West Campus will be much more than a typical university campus – it will also be a place for city residents to work, shop, and live.
For 100 years of community investment and redevelopment.
For their continued and lasting commitment to Newark and New Jersey
A workshop focused on state DEP grants for the development and implementation of climate-friendly design guidelines and zoning standards that allow for compact, walkable mixed-use development and/or transit-oriented development. July 20, 2009.
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Reports, Presentations and Testimony
- 01/17/2012: Reaction to State of the State Address
- 10/18/2011: Comments: Proposed Amendments to BPU Main Extension Rules
- 11/11/2011: Statement: On S2950 A4128, the Adaptive Approval bill
- Financial Benefits of Density in Two New Jersey Downtowns 7-11 (Intern report)
- 11/21/2011: A4128, the "Adaptive Approval" bill
- Route 1 Planning Through Partnerships
- 11/30/2011: Coalition Statement on Grow NJ Bill
- Leinberger in the League Magazin
- Transit-Oriented Development Workshop for HCDNNJ memb mtg 06-15-2011
- 05/07/2009 Testimony on Urban Transit Hub Tax Credit Act
- Presentation: Land Preservation Using Off-site Clustering 03-19-11
- A Citizen's Guide to Transit-Oriented Development
- 12-14-2010 Testimony on Historic Property Reinvestment Act
- Transfer of Development Rights Task Force Report 08-11-10
- Chasing Their Tails: Municipal Ratables Chase Doesn't Necessarily Pay 07-10
- Getting to Work 11-08
- Climate Change and Land Use 10-08
- Brownfields Redevelopment 01-08
- Moving Out: New Jersey's Population Growth and Migration Patterns
- Historic Preservation 03-05
- Race to the Middle: The Homogenization of New Jersey's Population Density
- Impact Fees 01-04
- Realistic Opportunity? The Distribution of Affordable Housing and Jobs in New Jersey
- Municipal Resource Conservation Assessment 06-01
- Case Study Hopewell Township 08-00
