3. Urban Sprawl Toolkit

Index

Books Model Ordinances Potential Providers Internet Tools

Books

Association Of New Jersey Environmental Commissions. 1989. Keeping Our Garden State Green: A Local Government Guide For Greenway And Open Space Planning. ANJEC, Mendham, New Jersey. 57 pages.

Association Of New Jersey Environmental Commissions. 1998. The Environmental Manual for Municipal Officials. ANJEC, Mendham, New Jersey. 176 pages.

Association Of New Jersey Environmental Commissions. 1998. Sample Ordinances for Protecting Significant Coastal Habitats.ANJEC, Mendham, New Jersey. 28 pages

Arendt, R. 1996. Conservation for Better Subdivisions: A Practical Guide To Creating Open Space Networks. The Natural Lands Trust (NLT), Media Pennsylvania. 184 pages.

Arendt, Randall. 1999. Growing Greener: Putting Conservation Into Local Plans And Ordinances. Natural Lands Trust (NLT), Media, Pennsylvania. 236 pages.

Arendt, Randall. 2001. Growing Greener Ordinance Language: Valley Enhanced Zoning And Subdivision Models. Natural Lands Trust (NLT), Media, Pennsylvania. (CD-ROM)

Beatley, T. 1997. The Ecology of Place: Planning For Environment, Economy And Community. The Center For Resource Economics (Island Press), Washington, DC. 265 pages.

Brown, W. 1998. Better Site Design: A Handbook For Changing Development Rules In Your Community. Center For Watershed Protection, Ellicot City, Maryland, USA. 210 pages.

Chadbourne, Joseph. 2000. Common Groundwork: A Practical Guide To Protecting Rural And Urban LandA Handbook For Making Land-Use Decisions. Chadbourne & Chadbourne, Inc., Chagrin Falls, Ohio. 394 pages

Cicin-Sain, Biliana. 1998. Integrated Coastal and Ocean Management: Concepts And Practices. UNESCO/University Of Delaware. 517 pages.

Corbett, J. 2000. Designing Sustainable Communities: Learning From Village Homes. Local Government Commission, Sacramento, California. 225 pages.

Department Of Environmental Resources. 2000. Low Impact Development Design Strategies: An Integrated Design Approach. Prince George's County, Dept. Of Environmental Resources, Largo, Maryland. 23 pages.

Department Of Environmental Resources. 2000. Low-impact Development Hydrologic Analysis: Companion Document To The Low-Impact Development Design Strategies. Prince George's County, Dept. Of Environmental Resources, Largo, Maryland. 43 pages.

EPA/625/R-94/009. 1994. Environmental Planning For Small Communities: A Guide For Local Decision-Makers. Center For Environment Research Information. 154 pages.

Honachefsky, W. 2000. Ecologically Based Municipal Land Use Planning. William B. Honachefsky (Lewis Publishers), Washington DC. 256 pages.

Jacques Cousteau NERR, 2000. Environmental Planning Strategies for Coastal Decision-makers. Rutgers University Marine Field Station, Little Egg Harbor, NJ (3-ring Binder).

Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve. 2000. Environmental Planning Strategies for Coastal Decision-Makers. Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve. Tuckerton, NJ.

Jacques Cousteau NERR. 2003. Technology For Land Use PlanningA Case Study: The Mullica River Watershed Build Out Analysis. Rutgers, New Brunswick, New Jersey. (3-ring binder).

Lemire, R. 1979. Creative Land Development: Bridge To The Future. Robert A. Lemire, Lincoln, Massachusetts. 176 pages.

Lerner, S. 1999. The Economic Benefits of Parks And Open Space: How Land Conservation Helps Communities Grow Smart And Protect The Bottom Line. The Trust For Public Land, San Francisco, California 48 pages.

The Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC). 2002. Mapping For Change: Using Geographic Information Systems For Community Development. The Local Initiatives Support Corporation. 22 pages.

Meffe, G. 2002. Ecosystem Management: Adaptive, Community-Based Conservation. The Center For Resource Economics (Island Press), Washington, DC. 313 pages.

Morain, S. 1999. GIS Solutions in Natural Resource Management: Balancing The Technical-Political Equation. OnWord Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico 364 pages.

NOAA. 2001. Using Remote Sensing to Address Coastal Management Issues: The Maine Project. National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration, Charleston, SC. (CD-ROM)

O'Looney, J. 2000. Beyond Maps: GIS And Decision Making In Local Government. International City/County Management, Washington, DC. 225 pages.

Smart Growth Network. 2002. Getting to Smart Growth: 100 Policies For Implementation. International City/County Management Association, Washington, DC. 97 pages.

Simpson, P.E. (ANJEC). 1999. Remediating And Redeveloping Brownsfields in New Jersey: A Guide For Community Organizations. The Coalition For Affordable Housing And The Environment, Trenton, New Jersey. 11 pages.

Smith, K. 1991. The Land Use Forum. The Association Of New Jersey Environmental Commissions (ANJEC), Medham, New Jersey. 22 pages.

The Trust For Public Land. 1997. Beyond The Century Plan: Biological Studies And Land Conservation Of The Barnegat Bay Watershed. By K. Able. The Trust For Public Land, New York, New York. 16 pages.

Model Ordinances

Jacques Cosuteau National Estuarine Research Reserve: Coastal Resource Repository--Model Ordinances
The Coastal Resource Repository provides Coastal Decisions Makers with a range of resources, including: scientific and technical reports and books, model management plans, static maps, and dynamic maps using Geographical Information Systems (GIS) technology. The JC NERR has compiled a number of model ordinances that may be used to guide development and protect sensitive natural resources including Shoreline/Waterfront protection, Landscaping /Tree protection, Stormwater Management, Water Supply Protection, Open Space, Environmental Impact.

Open Space Zoning Ordinance--Hamburg Township, MI
These model ordinances can be found in the Coastal Resource Repository at the Jacques Cousteau Coastal Education Center, Tuckerton, NJ. (609) 812-0649

Model Open Space Ordinance--US EPA
These model ordinances can be found in the Coastal Resource Repository at the Jacques Cousteau Coastal Education Center, Tuckerton, NJ. (609) 812-0649

Smart Growth Online: Land Development Regulations
This web page helps communities adopt and implement changes to their land development regulations that facilitate Smart Growth. The ordinances, reports, and tools collected for this effort will assist communities to assess their existing land development regulations as well as provide templates that can be tailored to address local needs and unique legal frameworks.

Potential Providers

Association of New Jersey Environmental Commissions: Resource Center
Help for environmental commissioners, citizens and local officials with information, guidance and referrals to experts via phone or email; Help in developing local GIS (Geographic Information Systems) maps for environmental resource inventories, open space plans; Sample municipal ordinances.

Community Viz: GIS Software Products and Services for Today's Planner
Software products that provide the capabilities for Alternative Comparisons, including quantitative impact analysis capabilities, with a "spatial spreadsheet" that can perform numerical computations on geographic data in real time; Policy Simulator to simulate future impacts of community planning proposals, to provide planners with a view of likely economic and demographic outcomes into the future; Site Builder enables users to build photo-realistic, 3-D, interactive models of their land use proposals, and allows models to allow virtual "fly-throughs" to visualize land-use proposals.

New Jersey's Department of Community Affairs- Office of Smart Growth: Resources
What are the resources to benefit municipalities and counties? The Office of Smart Growth provides the following resources to promote Smart Growth visions: oMaps and GIS Data; Rules; Grants; Publications; Design; Schools and Smart Growth; Traffic and Transportation; Highlands.

New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection's: Information Resource Center
The Information Resource Center (IRC) has been the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection's (NJDEP) library and information center for environmental science and technology. Two professional librarians manage a collection of books, journals, government documents and regulatory information related to environmental health, site remediation, toxicology, water resources, waste management, and more. It is the mission of the IRC to provide timely and high-quality environmental information research and services to NJDEP staff and to the general public. Our vision for the IRC is to be environmental information center whose work and resources are aligned with and critical to the priorities of the Department.

GOZ (TM) : Goal Oriented Zoning--Build-Out Analysis Model
GOZ (TM) is a computer program that calculates the "build out" impacts of existing zoning ordinances and enables a user to construct and test alternative zoning scenarios. GOZ (TM) allows the user to calculate the impacts of build-out under the following scenarios: (1) Existing municipal zoning, (2) Alternative zoning scenario based upon minor revisions to existing zoning, (3) The Regional Planning Partnership's VISION 2050 "smart growth" scenario (central New Jersey only), (4) Alternative zoning scenario based upon user-defined mixed-use centers.

Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis--Landscape Change Research
Rutgers Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis' (CRSSA) research on utilizing remote sensing and digital geo-spatial technologies to map and monitor New Jersey's Urban Growth. This is research done by Dr. John Hasse (Rowan University) and Dr. Rick Lathrop (Rutgers University)

Internet Tools

Association of New Jersey Environmental Commissions: Online Resource Center
Information, tools and contacts on land use, open space, water resources, the urban environment and more.

Association of New Jersey Environmental Commissions: Smart Growth Survival Kit
ANJEC's Smart Growth Survival Kit brings together information and references to help environmental commissions and citizens incorporate natural resource protection and State Plan consistency into their local plans. A wide range of tools and techniques can all work together to manage growth. Each topic has information about the benefits, approaches and content of each tool.

Smart Communities Network--United States Department of Energy: Land use Planning
This website provides an introduction to key planning principles as well as resources for strategies, tools, and civic participation to help communities with sustainable land use planning. This resource-based website that includes tools such as strategies, tools, success stories, code/ordinances, articles and publications, educational materials and other resources.

New Tools for Community Design and Decision Making: An Overview--United States Department of Energy
This presentation is about the planning tools of the next century. Smart Growth concepts have been widely embraced for redevelopment and new growth areas, yet the problems in by proponents are many. They include community opposition to density and the mixing of uses, outdated regulatory practices, and difficulties related to financing. As the tools you see in this presentation move from the testing phase to everyday use, these barriers to building better communities will diminish.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Green Communities
Socio-economic, environmental, sustainability, indicators and financial tools to help your community predict, based on current trends and activities, the direction you are headed. It allows community members to visualize their future if nothing is done to intervene. What can you expect if current patterns of land development, population change, natural resource consumption, and commercial and industrial activities continue? Are these trends sustainable?

Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve: Coastal Resource Repository--Library Resources
The JC NERR Coastal Repository Library has compiled a number of resources available for your reference. Please visit the Coastal Education Center in Tuckerton, NJ to view these resources, or Contact the JC NERR staff. You may also download the Coastal Repository Library Resources list as an Adobe PDF file. Sample Contents include Local Ecology, Geographical Information Systems, Habitat Restoration, Redevelopment , Environmental Resource Management, Watershed Management, and Planning Issues / Smart Growth.

Local Government Environmental Assistance Network: LGEAN -Toolbox
The Local Government Environmental Assistance Network has provided this toolbox as a resource to assist local government officials in their efforts to protect the environment and public health. Opening each drawer provides users with access to a variety of tools in a particular area of concern to local governments. The tools (interactive software or documents that require user input) are designed to help users perform operations and calculations necessary to fulfill environmental reporting requirements or guide the development of a helpful environmental program including topics such as Air, Drinking water, Energy, Financing, General, Hazardous waste, Pesticides, Small communities, Smart growth, Solid waste, Stormwater, Urban forestry, Wastewater and Watersheds.

New Jersey's Department of Community Affairs- Office of Smart Growth: Smart Future Planning Resources
Smart Growth begins with Smart Planning and the popular and highly competitive smart future planning grants are one item in the tool kit. This website will give you information and resources about New Jersey's Smart Growth Planning Grants.

New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection: i-MapNJ
i-MapNJ is an environmental mapping tool that can provide you with information about your neighborhood, county, or state (NJ). With this unique application, homeowners can find out what's in their backyard; and environmental organizations, planners, and builders can identify open space, various regulatory boundaries, sensitive lands, watersheds, and much more.

New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection's: Environmental Digital Library
The NJEDL is an online library of environmental literature and multimedia related to New Jersey. The collection includes documents and reports, scientific studies, photographs, videos, maps, and more. Most of the items in this collection are considered "grey literature"--unavailable through common research tools like library catalogs and indexes.

NOAA Coastal Services Center: Coastal Management Techniques
The NOAA Coastal Services Center serves the nation's coastal resource managers. Search Coastal Management Techniques to find methods, strategies, and policies for addressing various coastal issues. The database is organized to allow a search by technique type and/or by coastal issue.

NOAA Coastal Services Center--VATA (Vulnerability Assessment techniques and Applications
Background on organization, stating goals of risk assessment and outreach for education of individuals and providing information to communities on hazard mitigation/risk assessment. Specific interest to http://www.csc.noaa.gov/vata/shoreline.pdf which shows shoreline change in relation to coastal hazards.

NOAA Coastal Services Center Hazard Information
An archive (in list form) covering topics including Natural Disasters, Weather, and Environmental topics, among others.

NOAA Coastal Services Center--Living on the Coast: Smart Growth Tools on the Internet
Living on the Coast links natural resource managers, community planners, and developers to tools, information, and inspiration about smart growth. On this site you will find: guidelines for balancing coastal communities' needs for economic growth, environmental protection, and social health and well-being; a database with links to techniques that can be used to implement smart growth; resources on smart growth, sustainable development, and coastal management .

Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve: Internet Mapping Server
This dynamic Internet Map Server (IMS) incorporating a variety of New Jersey related GIS layers generated at the federal, state and local levels. This IMS site was created to help distribute data to Costal Decision Makers in support of the Coastal Resource Repository by empowering users to browse and query GIS data via the internet.

Smart Growth Online: Smart Growth Resource Library
This section of Smart Growth Online is a searchable catalogue of reports, websites, tools and case studies dating from 1997 until today. Most of the resources contained in this catalogue are available on-line. To search, click on any of the links under "resources" in the left hand sidebar.

The U.S. Conference of Mayors: Best Practices Search
This tool will allow you to search the USCM Best Practices area exclusively. The goal is to help you find the Best Practices information you need quickly and accurately. Note that this will not search any other portion of the USCM Website. You may find other USCM searches in the USCM Site Search area.

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