New and Updated Publications
Recent handbooks, manuals and resource papers
Many ANJEC publications are available online in PDF
format (
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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.
The
Environmental Resource Inventory: ERI( 290kb). Order paper copy. 2013 update. 12
pages. $1.00. Legal basis, elements and uses of this important database
of natural resources and environmental characteristics. How to put an ERI
together, types of information to include, sample tables of contents.
Solar Siting and Sustainable Land Use, white paper (707kb), Order paper copy. 2012. 16 pages. $1.00. With growing pressure to build large-scale solar facilities on farmland, open space, forests and environmentally sensitive areas, this paper will help municipalities navigate the new and complex issues around solar development, especially as it affects sound land use planning.
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.
Municipal Options for
Stormwater Management ( 238kb). Order paper copy. 2011. 12 pages. $1.00. Reducing non point
pollution and managing stormwater through master plans, natural areas, zoning and land use
ordinances, best management practices, retrofitting and redevelopment. References, web and
phone links.
Open Space Plan ( 306kb). Order paper copy. 2011. 12 pages. $1.00. Putting an open space
plan together, with outline of subjects required for Green Acres Planning Incentive Program,
suggestions for funding, sources of information, factors for ranking lands for preservation,
and action plan elements.
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.
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