APA - NJ Chapter
P. O. Box 200402
1 Riverfront Plaza Newark, NJ 07102
Chapter Admin:
Michael E. Levine, AICP
P:973-286-4708
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APA-NJ Bylaw Amendment Ballot
Voting Deadline is August 1st
The Executive Committee of the New Jersey Chapter of the American Planning Association puts forward these bylaw amendments for its members’ consideration. Due to the substantive nature of the amendments, the Executive Committee has opted to propose a new edition of the bylaws rather than confuse the situation with extensive track changes on the document. Accordingly, both the proposed and current bylaws are posted for review and comparison on the Chapter's website.
The amendments put forward for your review include the following:
- The first objective of the amendments was to improve the readability of the bylaws. The bylaws now include a table of contents and have a more logical flow.
- Second, the amendments represent a major restructuring of the Executive Committee. Currently, there are a significant number of non-elected voting members on the Executive Committee, including committee chairs, the newsletter editor, professional development officers and student representatives. The restructured Executive Committee redistributes some of these duties to elected offices, leaving the professional development officers and the student representative the only voting Executive Committee members not elected by the full membership. The amendments also better define the duties of the Executive Committee officers, and represent a more efficient distribution of workload.
- Finally, the amendments include new guidelines regarding financial management, something lacking in the current bylaws.
Other than the substantive amendments described above, the intent of the bylaws and the procedural workings of the organization are not significantly amended by the proposed new bylaws. The APA New Jersey Executive Committee put a great deal of thought and effort into the proposed bylaws, and hopes you will support our efforts to increase efficiency.
Click here to vote. You will need to enter your APA ID to gain access to the ballot. This is to ensure that only members in good standing are accessing the ballot and to prevent duplicate votes. Your actual vote is anonymous.
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Updated 2/24/09
2008 APA-NJ Conference Certificate Maintenance (CM) Reporting
At long last, the APA-NJ Annual Conference is up on the AICP CM website for you to report!
We have been notified that some people are having problems seeing the second and third pages of conference sessions. To rectify this problem, you have to adjust your monitor to a higher resolution. To do so, right click on your desktop, select properties, then settings—change the resolution to at least 1152 pixels.
Also, a reminder that the Law and Ethics courses may not show up as such in your credit log—your log will show credits for the courses, but they will not register in the law/ethics tally. AICP promises that when they fix the problem on their end, it will automatically be up-dated in your log.
Should you have any questions or concerns about your CM log, please contact AICP directly at AICPCM@planning.org.
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The Jersey Planner is the newsletter of the American Planning Association New Jersey Chapter.
The Jersey Planner is distributed to Chapter members 6 times per year.
View the current and past issues of The Jersey Planner
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Sustainable Design Planning Assistance Program
Newton Design Workshop
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Updated 07/25/07
AICP Certification Maintenance Plan
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President's Corner (updated 2/18/09)
NEW JERSEY’S RESPONSE TO GLOBAL WARMING
By Courtenay Mercer, APA-NJ Chapter President
The State, late in 2008, released an Energy
Master Plan and implementation
Recommendation Report in response to
Governor Corzine’s Executive Order 54
and the passage of the Global Warming
Response Act of 2007. The Act calls for
greenhouse gas reductions to 1990 levels
by 2020, and 80 percent below 2006
levels by 2050. The Recommendation
Report, whose comment period ended
January 23rd, puts forth short, medium
and long-range strategies and targets to
meet these goals. While many of the
strategies include tangible, scientific reductions
in greenhouse gas (GHG) production
(e.g. low/zero emission vehicles),
the report also includes a set of somewhat
less tangible Land Use and Transportation
Planning strategies. From a
planner’s standpoint, however, these
recommendations are not sufficient.
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The Redevelopment Handbook - A Guide to Rebuilding New Jersey's Communities
by Stan Slachetka and David G. Roberts © 2003. This Handbook has been jointly published by the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs and the New Jersey Chapter of the American Planning Association.
This book "is an easy-to-understand, practical guide that will help municipalities that are considering redevelopment "
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Order your copy of the Complete Guide to Planning in New Jersey, Second Edition.
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2009 Governor’s Conference on
Housing and Community Development
September 22 & 23, 2009
Atlantic City Convention Center
Sponsored by the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs
and the New Jersey Housing & Mortgage Finance Agency
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State Planning Commission New Rules
Dear Interested Parties,
The State Planning Commission has adopted new rules regarding plan endorsement and has proposed concurrent amendments to these rules. Both are published in the April 20, 2009 New Jersey Register and are attached for your reference. The published rule adoption includes comments submitted to the Office of Smart Growth and agency responses.
The 60-day comment period for the concurrent proposal is June 19, 2009. Comments on the proposal may be submitted in writing to:
Ben L. Spinelli, Secretary and Principal Executive Officer
State Planning Commission
c/o New Jersey Department of Community Affairs
Office of Smart Growth
P.O. Box 204
Trenton, NJ 08625-0204
Alternatively, comments may be submitted via facsimile to: (609) 292-3292 or sent electronically to: osgmail@dca.state.nj.us |
New Jersey Association for Floodplain Management
Call for Presentations
5th Annual Conference
Effective Floodplain Management – Solutions Using Limited Resources
October 15 & 16, 2009
Palace at Somerset Park in Somerset, NJ
This Call for Presentations is your invitation to join a broad range of professionals in New Jersey to be part of a dialogue to address issues associated with floodplain and emergency management. The presentations and attendees will include elected officials, scientists, engineers, surveyors, regulators, code officials, emergency managers, insurance agents, real estate agents, land use board members, conservationists, public works managers and vendors. Concurrent sessions, plenary sessions, networking events and a comprehensive exposition of products and services provide an enticing forum for exchange of information.
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Call for Best Practices in Affordable Housing
The Institute for Meadowlands Studies (IMS) at Rutgers University, an operation of the Center for Urban Policy Research at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, is compiling a collection of best practices in affordable housing. Selected projects will be featured as case studies in an upcoming IMS publication. An ideal project is completed and occupied; however, developments that are currently under construction, undergoing rehabilitation, or still in the planning stages are also of interest. To suggest a best practice case study, please contact:
David Listokin, Professor
Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy Rutgers University
Doctoral and Graduate Director
33 Livingston Ave, Suite 400
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1982
Phone: 732-932-3133, ext 550
Fax: 732-932-2363
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We Thank our Sponsors for their Generous Support
of the 2008 Annual Planning Conference
Clarke Caton Hintz
Heyer Gruel Associates
Stearns Associates, LLC
Maser Consulting P.A.
Howard/Stein-Hudson Associates, Inc.
The Brick Industry Association
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American Planning Association - New Jersey Chapter
2008 Annual Awards
November 7, 2008
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