New and Updated Publications
Recent handbooks, manuals and resource papers
Many ANJEC publications are available online in PDF
format (
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PDF files require Adobe
Reader, available for free. Use the online
form to order paper copies.
Municipal
Environmental Commissions in New Jersey ( 241kb). Order paper copy. 2011. 12 pages. $1.00. Enabling legislation,
commissions’ roles and benefits to municipalities, opportunities for training,
examples of successful commission projects in raising awareness of wetlands and wildlife,
reducing pesticide use, reviewing site plans, monitoring water quality, reducing non-point
source pollution and use computer mapping.
Site Plan and Subdivions Review:
Environmental Analysis.(226kb) 2010.
12 pages. $1.00. Legal authority and procedures for environmental review of subdivisions
and/or site plans. Approaches to evaluating environmental impacts, guidelines for site
inspections and sample format for environmental commission reports to planning and zoning
boards.
Protecting our Streams (
365kb), 2009. 12 pages. $1.00. Impacts of human activity on water quality,
options and benefits of stream protection, municipal ordinances, state and
regional regulatory programs and sources of information.
Major State Programs
Affecting Land Use (
151kb), 2009. 8 pages, $1.00.
Describes programs impacting land use that the NJ Department of Environmental
Protection (NJ DEP) administers - Water Quality Management Planning, Freshwater
Wetlands Protection, Flood Hazard Area Protection, Water Quality Standards
and Coastal Protection. The paper explains how environmental commissions
can comment effectively on development proposals that require state permits
and state regulation proposals. Environmental commission comments can alert
municipal board to applicant's need for state permits and can provide NJ
DEP with information critical to comprehensive review.
Sample
Ordinances for Protecting Significant Coastal Habitats (
550kb). Order paper copy, 2007. 30 pages.
$2.50. 2nd edition. Includes excerpts from 22 actual ordinances in effect
in New Jersey municipalities to protect natural habitats, from conservation
design and dune protection to open space, stormwater management, flood prevention
and much more.
Transfer of
Development Rights: A Market-Driven Planning Tool
( 280kb)
Order paper copy. 2007. 12 pages, $1.00. Explains the
benefits and requirements of a Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) program and provides a
summary of New Jersey’s municipal TDR law. Suggests eight steps to develop a local
TDR program and consistency with the State Plan. Describes how Chesterfield (Burlington)
participated in the county’s pilot TDR project, including use of both base-zoning and
environmental factors to allocate credits to development potentials.
Updated Environmental Commissioners’ Handbook. 2007. 100 pages. $12. The fifth edition is filled with information commissions need to get the job done in their communities, including new sections on
- Energy conservation and sustainability
- The State Plan and regional protection areas, and
- A whole new chapter on protecting the environment in developed communities;
As well as information on
- How successful commissions operate;
- Statutory powers and responsiblities of commissions;
- Practical tools for environmental resource inventories, land use planning, open space and historic preservation, pollution control, and environmental ordinances;
- Case studies, checklists, glossary, information resources, texts of
environmental commisison enabling legislation and model municipal ordinance.
- View the Handbook’s Table of Contents (
21kb)
- Order the Environmental Commissioners’ Handbook
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