New Jersey Future Blog
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November 10, 2020 : 0 comments
Green infrastructure can make your town a healthier, cleaner, and safer place to live by reducing flood risk, returning clean water to the ground, cleaning and cooling the air, and aiding in pedestrian safety. Learn more in the updated Municipal Toolkit.
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Visualizing an Aging-Friendly Built Environment for Implementation in Ridgewood Village
November 10, 2020 : 0 comments
New Jersey Future partnered with the Village of Ridgewood to develop an aging-friendly land use implementation plan, and now a graduate design studio class at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University is helping to move it along.
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Does School District Fragmentation Support Residential Segregation?
November 9, 2020 : 0 comments
If New Jersey wants to address its status as one of the most segregated states in the country, mitigating its exclusionary land-use incentives by organizing and funding public education at a higher level of government might be a good place to start. Read the latest installment in our Geography of Equity and Inclusion series.
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Stormwater Utilities—Peeling Back the Onion
November 9, 2020 : 0 comments
How much do municipalities and counties currently spend on stormwater infrastructure, and how receptive are they to this new concept? A new New Jersey Department of Community Affairs survey aims to find out.
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An Interview with 2020 Cary Edwards Leadership Award Winner Peter Reinhart
November 9, 2020 : 0 comments
New Jersey Future is honoring Peter Reinhart at this year’s Smart Growth Awards for his decades of service and commitment to smart, fair, and resilient growth in New Jersey across the government, nonprofit, academic, and business sectors.
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To Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions, We Need to Drive Less—and Build Smarter
October 14, 2020 : 0 comments
A new report from Transportation for America, Driving Down Emissions: Transportation, Land Use, and Climate Change, makes clear that the amount of carbon we pump into the atmosphere still depends on how much we drive, which in turn depends on where and how we build things.
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Changes to Municipal Land Use Law would make NJ municipalities more resilient
October 14, 2020 : 0 comments
Currently, New Jersey’s Municipal Land Use Law does not account for climate change, but a bill sponsored by Senator Bob Smith and Assemblywoman Nancy Pinkin would require the land use plan element of municipal master plans assess likely impacts associated with climate change-related risks and devise strategies to address them.
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