15-Minute Neighborhoods - A Pathway to Creating Healthier, More Just, Resilient, & Sustainable Communities in New Jersey

The mission of the CCRC is to create and support the use of impartial and actionable science to advance government, public, private, community-led, and nongovernmental sector efforts to adapt to, and mitigate, a changing climate. [...] While the Office of the Secretary of Higher Education administers the partnership that funds the New Jersey State Policy Lab, the contents of this report do not necessarily represent the policy of the Office of the Secretary of Higher Education and you should not assume endorsement by the State of New Jersey, elected leadership, or other employees of the State of New Jersey. [...] The legislation could also direct the NJ TRANSIT Office of Real Estate and the Transit-Friendly Planning Program and NJDOT Transit Village staff to develop and implement a strategy to decrease surface parking lots and increase residential and commercial development adjacent to the state’s transit station assets, require the New Jersey Economic Development Authority, New Jersey Housing and Mortgage. [...] To create people-centered quality places, residents and local leaders must reimagine their communities and adopt policies and regulations that create interconnected centers of activity with a diversity of destinations, density that is appropriate to context, and community design that fosters a sense of place and reflects the unique character and history of their communities. [...] During Phase 2, the Rutgers Team worked with three New Jersey municipalities – the City of Bridgeton in Cumberland County, Cherry Hill Township in Camden County, and the City of Newark in Essex County – and three teams of graduate students from the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers to examine community development and mobility needs in each community and explore how the 15-.