State Land Use Planning Is Transformed Into Business Advocacy
Another Green Light To Sprawl
Greetings!
Please be advised that I just received another “Cancellation” message from the Murphy administration’s “Office of Planning Advocacy” (which has become little more than an Office Of Business Advocacy).
The NJ State Development and Redevelopment Plan and the State Planning Commission have virtually been cancelled as well.
Government planning, regulation, and the State Plan are taboo, as a Wall Street oriented Governor and a former corporate lawyer DEP Commissioner abdicate to market forces.
That cancellation and abandonment of State government planning and regulation are reflected in the Murphy administration’s governance, as exposed by a host of ad hoc, uncoordinated, and environmentally damaging economic development policies like: expansion of highway capacity; crumbling and dysfunctional public transit; extended delays in conversion to renewable energy and electrification; expansion of fossil fueled natural gas infrastructure; extension of sewer/wastewater infrastructure to promote sprawl; neglect of the Pinelands, Highlands, and State Parks and Forests; and continuing vulnerability to all forms of disaster, including public health pandemics.
As a result, sprawl development has been revived and warehouses are exploding, while the last remaining farms and forests disappear and even the possibility of attainment of Clean Air standards and the greenhouse gas emissions reductions goals of the voluntary NJ Global Warming Response Act are vanishing.
Yet you wouldn’t know any of this from NJ media or the environmental groups, who all praise and parrot the firehose of self serving DEP press releases.
Happy Climate Week!
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