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Impact
Assessment of the
New Jersey State Development
and Redevelopment Plan
Background:
The New Jersey State Planning
Commission is now in the process
of updating New Jersey’s
State Development and Redevelopment
Plan. The New Jersey State Planning
Act (N.J.S.A. 52:18A-196 et.
seq.) requires that an Impact
Assessment Study of a Draft
Final State Plan be performed
and the results of the study
made available before adoption
of a Final State Plan. The purpose
of the Impact Assessment is
to identify desirable changes,
if any, to be incorporated into
the State Plan prior to its
adoption or re-adoption. The
Impact Assessment is to describe
the impacts of fully implementing
the policies and strategies
proposed in the 2005 Draft Final
State Plan (“PLAN scenario”)
relative to the impacts that
would most likely occur with
the continuation of current
(2004) trends in the absence
of the 2005 Draft Final State
Plan (“TREND scenario”).
Pursuant
to the State Planning Act, the
State Planning Commission is
also required to [..] “Prepare
and adopt as part of the State
Plan a long-term Infrastructure
Needs Assessment, which shall
provide information on present
and prospective conditions,
needs and costs with regard
to State, county and municipal
capital facilities, including
water, sewerage, transportation,
solid waste, drainage, flood
protection, shore protection
and related capital facilities”
(N.J.S.A. 52:18A-199.b).
Both
the 2001 Impact Assessment Study
(http://www.state.nj.us/dca/osg/plan/impact.shtml)
and the 2001 Infrastructure
Needs Assessment (http://www.state.nj.us/dca/divisions/osg/docs/infrastructureassessment030101.pdf)
[pdf
8621k] are
accessible on the Office of
Smart Growth web site.
September
2000
Download
the 2000 Impact Assessment
- Executive
Summary
[pdf
780k]
- The
Costs and Benefits of
Alternative Growth Patterns:
The Impact Assessment
of the New Jersey State
Plan (entire document)
ZIP
file [zip
20300k]
of
PDF files.
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Prepared
by
Robert W. Burchell, Ph.D.,
William R. Dolphin, Catherine
C. Galley
Center for Urban Policy Research,
Edward J. Bloustein School of
Planning and Public Policy,
Rutgers, the State University
of New Jersey
With
the assistance of
Richard K. Brail, Ph.D.,
Edward J. Bloustein School of
Planning and Public Policy,
Rutgers, the State University
of New Jersey; Alex Zakrewski,
Center for Urban Policy Research,
Edward J. Bloustein School of
Planning and Public Policy,
Rutgers, the State University
of New Jersey; Nancy C. Neuman,
Ph.D., Sandstone Environmental
Associates
Reviewed
by
John Epling, D.P.A.,
The Epling Corporation; Charles
L. Siemon, Esq., Siemon
Larsen and Marsh; David Slater,
Hammer Siler George Associates;
James C. Nicholas, Ph.D.,
Univeristy of Florida; Neil
Muller, Muller Bohlin Associates
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the 1992 Impact Assessment
- Executive
Summary
[pdf
2100k]
- Report
I: Research Strategy
- Report
II: Research Findings
- Report
III: Supplemental
Amended Interim Plan
Assessment
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Many
participants in the initial
State Planning process were
supportive of the goals of
the State
Planning Act, but
worried that the costs may
be too great to absorb. The
New Jersey Legislature responded
to these concerns by amending
the Act in 1989 to provide
for an assessment of the Plan's
impacts. Because the Plan
would be designed to achieve
a number of conflicting goals,
the Legislature acted to include
impacts on the State's fiscal,
economic, environmental, housing,
infrastructure, intergovernmental
coordination and quality of
life feature in the study.
In 1990, the Center
for Urban Policy Research
at Rutgers University assembled
a team of academic and private
sector experts in these areas
and, after exhaustive research
and computer modeling, their
findings, published in 1992,
supported the Plan's policy
recommendations.
The
researchers found that compared
to a continuation of current
development patterns, by the
year 2010, implementation
of the State Plan could save
$700 million in road costs,
$562 million in water supply
and sewer infrastructure costs,
$178 million in school capital
facilities, and up to $380
million per year in operating
costs to local governments
and school districts during
this planning period.
By
the year 2010, when compared
to a continuation of current
development patterns, implementation
of the State Plan can also
result in significant improvements
to natural resources and the
environment by protecting
an additional 30,000 acres
of environmentally fragile
lands, preserving 40,000 additional
acres of farmland, and reducing
water pollutants by 40%.
Copies
of the study are available
directly from the Center
for Urban Policy Research
at Rutgers University.
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