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Dept/ Agency: Economic & Housing Development
Action: ( ) Ratifying (X) Authorizing ( ) Amending
Type of Service: Consortium Memorandum of Understanding
Purpose: Membership in HUD’s Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant Program and designation of representatives to Steering Committee of Consortium
Entity Name: North Jersey Sustainable Communities Consortium
Entity Address: Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901
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WHEREAS, in June 2009, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) joined with the U.S. Department of Transportation, and the Environmental Protection Agency to create an Interagency Partnership for Sustainable Communities. In the context of the federal partnership, HUD created the Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant Program in an effort to support metropolitan and multijurisdictional planning efforts that integrate housing, land use, economic and workforce development, transportation, infrastructure plans and to empower jurisdictions to consider the interdependent challenges of economic growth and revitalization, access to opportunity, public health, and environmental impact simultaneously; and
WHEREAS, in November 2011, a group consisting of Rutgers University, the North Jersey Transportation Authority (NJTPA), NJ TRANSIT, the Office for Planning Advocacy and others received a $5 million grant from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development to create the North Jersey Sustainable Communities Consortium (“Consortium”) which will guide the development of a Regional Plan for Sustainable Development (“RPSD") for the 13-county NJTPA region; and
WHEREAS, the purpose of this planning effort is to enhance, coordinate, and expand existing planning work being conducted at the local, county, regional, and state level to address economic growth, development, tra...
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