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For
more than 30 years, local environmental commissions have been
working to protect open space. They have created inventories of
local public and private open space and made recommendations for
their use. Commissions have led many of the successful referenda
that have established local Open Space taxes in all
21 counties and more than 225 municipalties across NJ. Commissions
work with local open space committees,
land trusts and environmental
organizations, elected officials, planning boards and citizens
to protect important natural resources through acquisition, Master
Plans, and local ordinances.
ANJEC
actively promotes open space preservation through information
and guidance, conferences, workshops and courses. We are also
active in efforts to protect important regions like the Highlands,
the Pinelands
and the South Jersey Bayshore.
Effective
open space protection takes a combination of planning,
regulation and acquisition.
Planning
Identifies important natural resources,
preserved lands, and linkages
Regulation
Uses local ordinances and state laws to protect important natural
resources and lands that surround preserved areas
- Help
develop and convince governing body to enact ordinances
to protect specific resources like steep slopes, stream corridors
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Persuade the Planning Board to require conservation easements
on wetlands, stream corridors and other important resources
as conditions of approval for subdivisions and site plans
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Inventory, monitor and enforce existing conservation easements
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Monitor the local Recreation
and Open Space Inventory (ROSI) which Green Acres requires
for its grants and loans to insure that preserved land is not
used in an unauthorized manner
Acquisition
Obtains land through purchase, "bargain sale"
(obtain land at less than appraised value) or donation; includes
purchase of full title, development rights and/or conservation
easement
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