This presentation was given at eat of the Together North Jersey Discovery Phase workshops. It provides a general overview of Together North Jersey and background on the outreach process.
2. Workshop Agenda
• Welcome
• Program and Ground Rules
• Introducing Together North Jersey
• “Listen & Learn” Activity Stations
– Together North Jersey Q&A
– NJTPA Regional Transportation Plan
– Live
– Work
– Getting Around
• What’s Important to You Polling
• Wrap Up and Closing Remarks
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4. What is Together North Jersey?
• Voluntary partnership of cities,
towns, counties, agencies, non-
profit organizations and others
in northern New Jersey that
have agreed to work together
with the public to plan for the
region’s future
• Funded by a Sustainable
Communities Regional
Planning Grant from U.S. Dept.
of Housing and Urban
Development
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5. Why Together North Jersey?
• Declining prosperity
– Stagnant/uneven job growth
– High unemployment
– Increasing debt delinquencies
– Declining home values &
ownership rates
• High cost of living
– Housing affordability
– Transportation costs
• Fiscal uncertainty
– High property taxes
– Government debt burden
– Looming service cuts
– Unfunded maintenance
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6. Why Together North Jersey?
• Underperforming Cities
– Concentration of poverty
– Public safety issues
– School quality
• Long commutes & traffic
congestion
• Environmental & public
health concerns
– Increase in chronic disease
– Air & water pollution
• Recovering from recent
disasters
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7. Why Together North Jersey?
• Changing demographics
– Retiring baby-boomers
– Rise of the Millennial
generation
– Continued immigration
• Shifting real estate market
demand
– Diverse amenity-rich places
– “Walkable” communities
– Locations served by transit
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8. What will Together North Jersey do?
• Undertake an extensive outreach
process to figure out what we can
do together to address regional
challenges
• Implement up to 40 local planning
projects to address local priorities
and inform the regional plan
• Provide technical assistance and
training
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9. Public and Stakeholder Engagement
• Purpose is to listen and learn
– Interviews and small group meetings
– 3 Together North Jersey standing committees meeting 3-6 times/year
– 50+ public workshops over 18 months
– Social media
• Three Phases – Three Basic Questions
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“Discovery” “Visioning” “Action Planning”
11. For More Information:
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Jon Carnegie, AICP/PP
Project Director
TOGETHER NORTH JERSEY
Executive Director
Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center
Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
33 Livingston Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
PH: (848) 932-2840
FAX: (732) 932-3714
carnegie@ejb.rutgers.edu
www.togethernorthjersey.com
Notas do Editor
Purpose will be to help guide development of a RPSD and a framework for implementing the plan once it is developed Membership open to open to any public jurisdiction, agency or authority; non-governmental organization; neighborhood association; community and faith-based organization; private business or company; or educational institution located in the region or serving the region
The region faces numerous challengesDeclining prosperity…high cost of living…fiscal uncertainty…underperforming cities…long commutes and traffic congestion…environmental and public health concerns…recovering from recent disastersEmerging trends challenge conventional wisdom about the future Changing demographics…shifting market demandThese challenges don’t respect government boundaries and the trends may require new approachesWe need to work together to find solutions and take advantage of emerging opportunities
