Is land use costing you your health? Learn about designing healthy communities and your role in local government. Key topics including health and the built environment, physical activity options, access to healthy foods, air quality, traffic-related crashes and more!
Explore how incentives are created for sustainability. Who creates them? Who gets them? At what level do they work best, and what has been most effective over time? Experts discuss both the tools and the underlying policy objectives. Hear about incentives, such as surcharges, fees, and tax reductions, and learn how they have been implemented. Speakers assess how they have fared in different locations. Learn what can be applied to your circumstances.
Over the last several decades, urban sprawl, white flight, land use regulations, and consolidation and concentration in the food retail sector have created grocery gaps in urban and rural communities. As a result, many communities lack access to healthy and affordable food. One community solution is healthy food retailing through existing outlets.Â
This National Academies of Sciences study produced a comprehensive, concise guide for public decision makers and land use planners on the impacts land use design and policies and regulations on freight movements within urban areas. The guidebook is written in a jargon-free manner and explains why it is important for local elected and appointed officials to understand how goods move within their urban area, why efficient movement is critical to their community’s urban quality of life, how land use codes, policies and regulation impact urban goods movement.Â
Many historic neighborhoods have experienced teardowns and the rebuilding of monster homes or other buildings that undermine sound planning. For historic and conservation districts this is a pressing issue. Learn how communities have developed codes, guidelines, and community visioning programs that respond to these incompatible developments. As communities grow and change, explore how historic preservation can be successfully linked to new development.
Is land use costing you your health? Learn about designing healthy communities and your role in local government. Key topics including health and the built environment, physical activity options, access to healthy foods, air quality, traffic-related crashes and more!
Redevelopment is a procedure used to revitalize distressed neighborhoods, address the effects of underused and neglected parcels and enhance the economic conditions of a municipality. Accompanied by sound planning and execution, redevelopment ultimately allows residents, stakeholders and local government officials to produce invaluable changes to our communities.
Join us for a tour of the new 4500 sq ft roof garden at the John Theurer Cancer Center. Â
Attendees will learn more about its purpose, design and construction along with regulatory issues, urban heat island and neighborhood impacts, storm water reduction methods, and tips on utilizing roof garden planning.Â
The workshop will provide general information on both environmental justice and cumulative impacts, as well as involve workshop participants in a discussion of possible solutions for the problem of cumulative impacts in New Jersey. The workshop will end with a tour of several environmental justice neighborhoods in Camden.
The $3.75 million, two-phased study evaluated the feasibility of adding dedicated truck lanes through Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. The Study evaluates if Dedicated Truck Lanes address the congestion and safety problems and needs on the corridor and improve the regions’ economic competitiveness more than general purpose lanes capacity additions or maintaining the corridor as it is today.Â
Join City of Jersey City Planning Director Robert Cotter, PP, FAICP on a walking tour of some of the State's most successful redevelopment efforts that now make up the fabric of Downtown Jersey City.
Cities and smaller communities are facing more severe hazards and sea-level rise. In this program, planners explore the issues of infrastructure and land changes, as well as environmental and economic changes. How do we know what the effects of climate change will be and how do we adapt? Explore both research and planning preparation.
Register now for the 2012 NJ Historic Preservation Conference "Sustaining the Past - Inventing the Future" on Thursday, June 7th at Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ. The full day conference includes 16 educational sessions and field workshops on preservation, sustainable design, archaeology, historic site stewardship, state parks, historic roads, and much more.
Join PlanSmart NJ, APA-NJ and The Sustainability Institute for our first Policy Briefing exploring the changing landscape of DEP Water Quality Management Planning in NJ. Hear speakers representing different perspectives discuss the opportunities and challenges they face.
This session will explore promising efforts to mobilize and innovate Federal solutions to aging issues cross-agency and intra-agency such as: creating a single agency entry point, providing a forum for dialogue or serving as a repository for policy and programs related to aging.