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New and Updated Publications

Recent handbooks, manuals and resource papers

Many ANJEC publications are available online in PDF format (Adobe PDF icon). Just click the title to view online or download using your right mouse button. PDF files require Adobe Reader, available for free. Use the online form to order paper copies.

Municipal Environmental Commissions in New Jersey (Adobe PDF icon 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.(Adobe PDF icon226kb) 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 (Adobe PDF icon 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 (Adobe PDF icon 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 (Adobe PDF icon 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.Back to Top

Transfer of Development Rights: A Market-Driven Planning Tool (Adobe PDF icon 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

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