The Office of Smart Growth (OSG), coordinates planning throughout New Jersey to protect the environment and guide future growth into compact, mixed-use development and redevelopment. The Office implements the goals of the State Development and Redevelopment Plan to achieve comprehensive, long-term planning; and integrates that planning with programmatic and regulatory land-use decisions at all levels of government and the private sector.


September Events
4 Brownfields Redevelopment InterAgency Team
10 Legislative Committee Meeting
16 Brownfields Policy & Legislative Committe
17 State Planning Commission
18 Brownfields Redevelopment InterAgency Team
Conference Call
18 Development Opportunities InterAgency Team
23 Brownfields Data & Marketing Committee

New @ OSG 

SPC: State Planning Rule Proposal [zip 3.0M]
PE: Benefits Chart [pdf 100k]

SPC: Sept 10 Legislative Committee Agenda

Plan Endorsement Factsheets
• Expired Centers [pdf 257k] 08/21/08
• Public Notice [pdf 250k] 05/01/08

Brownfields: Updated Brownfields Redevelopment Resource Kit

Smart Growth in Action
Woolwich Plan Endorsement West Cape May Plan Endorsement

Woolwich Plan Endorsement

West Cape May
Plan Endorsement
SPC Chair Ed McKenna, OSG Principal Planner Lorissa Whitaker, OSG Executive Director Ben Spinelli, Mayor Joe Chila (D-Woolwich), GroupMelvinDesign Principal Robert Melvin, Woolwich Administrator Jane DiBella, GroupMelvinDesign Associate Planner Caroline Armstrong, Woolwich Community Development Director Anthony Zappasodi

SPC Chair Ed McKenna, OSG Executive Director Ben Spinelli, Mayor Pamela Kaithern (West Cape May), West Cape May Planning Board Chair Gary Novak, OSG Planner Katherine Meade

Office of Smart Growth
Department of Community Affairs
101 South Broad Street
PO Box 204
Trenton, NJ 08625-0204

OSG tel 609-292-7156
OSG fax 609-292-3292
email osgmail@dca.state.nj.us

Executive Director email osg_ed@dca.state.nj.us