NJDEP GIS - CAFRA Layers Data Downloads

NJDEP Digital Data Downloads in ArcView Shape file format:

CAFRA Layers

These files can be used with your GIS or can be viewed with a free GIS Data Viewer from ESRI called ArcExplorer.

The 1993 amendments to the Coastal Area Facility Review Act (CAFRA), N.J.S.A. 13:19-1 et seq., required that the rules implementing those amendments be closely coordinated with the State Development and Redevelopment Plan. In response to those statutory amendments, the Department in February 2000 adopted new rules for determining impervious cover limits and vegetative cover percentages for developments requiring a CAFRA permit based on the proposed development's location in a CAFRA center, CAFRA core, CAFRA node, Coastal Planning Area or coastal center. The CAFRA Planning Map identifies the boundaries of CAFRA centers, cores and nodes, Coastal Planning Areas and coastal centers.

The Coastal Planning Areas and CAFRA centers, CAFRA cores, and CAFRA nodes are those planning areas, centers, cores and nodes, respectively, that have been adopted by the State Planning Commission and reviewed and accepted by the Department for the purposes of CAFRA. In February 2000, the Department delineated and adopted coastal centers. The boundaries of coastal centers located on barrier islands, spits and peninsulas (non-mainland coastal centers) were not given an expiration date because the areas encompassed by the coastal center were already heavily developed. However, a 5-year expiration date was imposed on the boundaries of coastal centers located on the less developed mainland. Those coastal centers expired on February 7, 2005. The mainland coastal center boundaries were re-established by rule on February 6, 2006 and expired March 15, 2007.

The CAFRA Planning Map is comprised of three data layers: NJDEP Coastal Planning Areas, NJDEP CAFRA and Coastal Centers, and NJDEP Shawcrest/Hildreth Island. The NJDEP Coastal Planning Areas and NJDEP CAFRA and Coastal Centers data layers, described in detail below, contain the boundaries of the Coastal Planning Areas, CAFRA centers, cores and nodes, and non-mainland coastal centers. The complete rule setting forth impervious cover limits and vegetative cover requirements for proposed CAFRA developments can be viewed at http://www.nj.gov/dep/landuse/7-7e.pdf.

NJDEP Shawcrest/Hildreth Island, New Jersey - ShawcrestHildreth.zip (19 KB, 52 KB unzipped)

This data is a depiction of Shawcrest/Hildreth Island. Shawcrest/Hildreth Island has been mapped by the Department for the purposes of permitting under the Coastal Area Facility Review Act (CAFRA), N.J.S.A. 13:19-1 et seq. and more specifically, applying the Bay island rule (N.J.A.C. 7:7E-3.21) contained in the Coastal Zone Management rules (N.J.A.C. 7:7E), as proposed in the February 20, 2007 New Jersey Register. This proposal provides for the exemption of Shawcrest/Hildreth Island from the Bay island rule.

NJDEP Coastal Planning Areas - coast_pa.zip (3805 KB, 5179 KB unzipped)

The NJDEP Coastal Planning Areas data layer identifies the boundaries of the Coastal Planning Areas used in CAFRA permitting by NJDEP. The planning area boundaries were mapped by the NJ Office of Smart Growth as part of the 2001 State Development and Redevelopment Plan, and subsequent revisions, and have been reviewed and accepted as Coastal Planning Area boundaries by the NJDEP for the purposes of CAFRA.

There are five types of Coastal Planning Areas: Metropolitan, Suburban, Fringe, Rural and Environmentally Sensitive Coastal Planning Areas. Each Coastal Planning Area has associated with it a corresponding, pre-determined impervious cover limit and vegetative cover requirement.

NJDEP CAFRA and Coastal Centers - coast_cafracen.zip (217 KB, 364 KB unzipped)

This data is a depiction of CAFRA centers, CAFRA cores, CAFRA nodes, and non-mainland coastal center boundaries used in CAFRA permitting by the NJDEP. CAFRA centers, cores and nodes are those centers, cores and nodes, respectively, that have been adopted by the State Planning Commission and reviewed and accepted by the Department for the purposes of Coastal Area Facility Review Act (CAFRA), N.J.S.A. 13:19-1 et seq. The Department delineated non-mainland coastal centers, based in part on centers identified in the 1992 State Development and Redevelopment Plan, where the State Planning Commission had not yet designated centers. Delineations were digitized over 1991 orthophotography at a minimum scale of 1:12,000. 1995 orthophotography was used to spot check ground conditions. The official description of the non-mainland coastal center boundaries are the written descriptions in Appendix 3, of the Coastal Zone Management rules, N.J.A.C. 7:7E. Boundaries of CAFRA centers, cores and nodes within the CAFRA area were clipped from the 2001 State Plan Policy Map (cenline2 shape file as amended through February 21, 2007 and nodes/cores shape files as amended through October 25, 2006) and form the boundaries of CAFRA centers, cores and nodes.

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