In This Issue: REPORT

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REPORT

SUMMER 2007

2 2006 ANJEC Highlights

3 Plant Stewardship

5 Shine Your Light Through the Media

6 Applying Conservation Design

8 ANJEC Awards 25 Grants Totaling $180,000

10 Farewell to a Friend of Nature

10 Highlands Regional Master Plan

11 Multiple Benefits of Locally-Grown Food

12 Acting Locally

13 Smart Growth Updates

14 Leading the Charge on Discharge

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Executive Director ... Sandy Batty Editor ... Sally Dudley Advertising Coordinator ... Alison Deeb

The Association of New Jersey Environmental Commissions is a private, non-profit educational organization serving environmental commission and open space committee members, concerned individuals, non-profits, and local officials. ANJEC’s programs aim to promote the public interest in natural resource preservation, sustainable development and reclamation and support environmental commissions and open space committees working with citizens and other non-profit organizations.

The REPORT welcomes articles and photographs but is not responsible for loss or damage. Opinions expressed by guest authors do not necessarily reflect ANJEC policy. Articles may be reprinted with permission and credit.

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Sandy Batty Executive Director

Cover: Weekly farm markets like this one in Morristown (Morris) are great sources of locally-grown food (see Good Earthkeeping column for more information).

2006 ANJEC Highlights

ANJEC recently completed its 2006 Annual Report outlining our major accomplishments. For a copy, please call us at (973) 539- 7547, or go to www.anjec.org/pdfs/AnnualReport.pdf

This has been a busy and productive year for ANJEC. Our dedicated staff members have worked effectively to fulfill the organization’s mission, helping environmental commissioners, other local officials and interested citizens to protect natural resources and promote sustainable development. Working with local governments throughout New Jersey, ANJEC has become a spokesman for local interests in regional and state environmental policy. At the same time, our organization often helps municipal

environmental commissions to see the larger regional or state perspectives on environmental issues.

We are constantly impressed by New Jersey’s environmental commissioners who volunteer their time to improve the environment of their towns. Their tireless efforts have forged creative and effective ways of address- ing local problems that have become models for good planning and for pollution prevention. We thank our supporters – foundations, corporations and individuals – whose generous donations to ANJEC make it possible for us to continue our important work.

I’d like to share some recent highlights from our 2006 Annual Report.

● With continued funding from the Dodge Foundation, ANJEC administered its fifth year of the Smart Growth Planning Assistance Grant Program for municipalities with environmental commissions. We selected 32 projects to receive grants totaling $213,000, for which the municipalities must provide a one-to-one match.

● A total of nearly 1,000 people attended ANJEC’s Envi- ronmental Congress, five sessions of training courses, 11 special subject seminars, and 15 road shows held throughout the year.

● More than 9,000 visitors went to ANJEC’s web site each month, an increase of 80 percent over the past two years.

● Our Resource Center developed new aids for commissions, including a customizable display and accompany- ing brochures that explain sustainable living and what environmental commissions do; and monthly news

release templates that commissions can adapt and send to enhance their visibility and increase the public’s awareness of the local environment.

● Over 75 people attended Celebration of the Bayshore, which highlighted the accomplishments of the South Jersey Bayshore Coalition, including a buildout study for Millville (Cumberland) an environmental resource inventory and analysis by Rutgers’ Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis (CRSSA), and work toward getting the region designated as a National Heritage Area. ANJEC coordinates the Coalition, composed of 17 environmental groups working to preserve the cultural heritage and environmental integrity of the Delaware Bayshore region.

● ANJEC updated its manual Remediating and Redevelop- ing Brownfields in New Jersey and its Site Plan and Subdivision Review Resource Paper, and produced a new publication, Clean Water, Sewers, Septics and Sprawl, which outlines key municipal actions to insure future clean water and sustainability.

● Hewlett-Packard gave ANJEC one of 200 nationwide grants of HP equipment worth over $16,000, including six laptops, a projector, a digital camera, wireless router and printer/fax. ANJEC received the only grant given to a New Jersey nonprofit organization.

Please let me know about your commission’s accomplishments during the past year and if you feel our programs have helped achieve your goals. Contact me by email at [email protected] or by phone at (973) 539- 7547 to let me know how we can improve ANJEC’s municipal services.

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Plant Stewardship

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By Leslie Jones Sauer, author of The Once and Future Forest: A Guide to Forest Restoration Strategies and Jeannine Vannais, PSI Coordinator, Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve

hat Do You Know About Your Municipality’s Natural Landscapes?

While many municipalities have statements about saving natural landscapes for future generations in their planning documents, very few have any ability to track their success or even any detailed information about the nature of the landscape. Most local Environmental/Natural Resources Inventories locate wetlands and woodlands but record little else about natural vegetation. At the state level, the New Jersey Department of Environ- mental Protection’s Division of Fish and Wildlife is conducting The Land- scape Project to identify and map critical and potential habitats of rare, endangered and threatened species, and the Office of Natural Lands Manage- ment maintains the Natural Heritage index, which documents the presence of rare species. Both databases depend upon a limited number of ground

surveys, but neither includes the majority of the plants in our landscape.

Except for the Pinelands Commission, planning agencies simply have not completed detailed vegetation maps.

Municipalities gather a lot of information about the landscape, generally in many different formats supplied by varied consultants to accompany development projects.

Unfortunately, towns usually bury the development application landscape data in files without contributing the data to any cumulative information set.

Imagine instead using a consistent format and a webpage to build a cumulative natural plants database that grows in value with each report to the township committee or planning board. Then imagine being able to go online to inquire about your town’s recorded plants simply by typing in zip codes and getting real information on the native plants as well as which exotic species are likely to be of greatest concern.

Building a Plant Stewardship Index (PSI) Database for New Jersey

The Plant Stewardship Index (PSI), adapted by New Hope, Pennsylvania’s Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve (BHWP) for use in New Jersey, is a method for quantifying how “natural”

a site is and the seriousness of the management concerns. Backed by 25 years of testing, the method is becom- ing a national standard, recognized by 11 states. The basis of PSI’s numerical rating is a gradient ranging from plants that persist despite disturbance to those that require pristine conditions.

PSI ranks plants based on their conservatism, that is, the extent to which their survival is dependent on intact ecosystems. Plants with a high degree of fidelity to the environment are declining, and they score highest.

Weeds and invasive species score the lowest. Species happy to coexist in disturbed landscapes like farms and in suburbs score in the mid-range. The PSI value of a site is a measure of its naturalness, which correlates well with wildlife and water quality values. PSI turns a standard species list into a comparable measure of quality that distinguishes degraded landscapes from those more pristine habitats that merit greater concern. Individuals and groups also can monitor natural and natural- ized landscapes over time using PSI.

Because PSI utilizes a uniform format, the data can be aggregated. The long range goal is to create a comprehensive database of all vegetation, to comple- ment our information on rare and threatened species, to monitor the spread of invasives and the status of those plants that are declining as well as where they occur.

To view the current PSI data and create your own cumulative database that is added to the regional database, go to www.bhwp.org/db/. Your informa- Wildflower Preserve PHOTO BY BOWMAN’S HILL WILDFLOWER PRESERVE

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tion will be logged by the name you assign your site and by zip code. To foster broad participation and build a comprehensive database of regional plant distribution over time, Bowman’s Hill Wildlife Preserve makes PSI available to any person or organization in New Jersey at no cost.

How Your Town Can Use the Plant Stewardship Index

PSI enables towns to have uniform, formatted plant data. Municipalities and other regulatory bodies need the PSI tool to guide their priorities during this time of rapid habitat decline. Even more importantly, local PSI’s will add to our collective and shared body of knowledge about local native plants.

The PSI Database also is an excellent place for recording historic data. Many plant societies and other botanical organizations created plant lists in the past. Entering that information into the database will provide an important historic comparison. Restorationists and landscape managers often rely on incomplete recommended species lists that include few species. With the PSI database they eventually will have detailed local data about what is actually there.

PSI is easy to use. The Friends of Montgomery Open Space and Mont- gomery Township (Somerset) are incorporating PSI into their joint management agreement and using PSI to guide and monitor their wetland and forest restoration projects. Delaware Township (Hunterdon) has incorporated PSI into their Stream Corridor Protection Ordinance. The Hunterdon

Roots of the Plant Stewardship Index

BHWP’s PSI is an adaptation of the Floristic Quality Assessment Index (FQAI) methodology developed by Floyd Swink and Gerould Wilhelm at Morton Arboretum in Chicago in the 1970s. Designed to assess the integrity of native plant communities, the FQAI (or FQI, as it is sometimes abbreviated in current floristic quality literature) is based on the species conservatism concept. All plants found within a survey area are assigned Coeffi- cients of Conservatism (CC) values, ranging from 0 to 10. Low numbers indicate plants that tolerate a wide range of conditions, while higher CC values indicate plants that require a specific set of environmental factors.

Usually a team of botanists with expertise in the flora of the region assign CC values to all native plants in a specific site survey, and

calculate a “native mean C” for that site by totaling the CC’s and dividing the sum by the number of native plant species within the assessed area.

In Wisconsin, where prairie and wetlands restoration sites have been monitored for many years, it appears that restoration sites rarely sustain a native mean C above 3.5 to 3.7. Since restoration is by definition on disturbed land, it makes sense that the CC values for plants found there are low, but it also indicates that the restoration potential of a site may be limited.

However, this is very good news for preservationists, because it highlights the special and irreplaceable value of a site whose native mean C is higher than 4.0.

Land Trust Alliance, New Jersey Conservation Foundation and D&R Greenway are completing PSI baseline surveys for their properties. The Delaware River Basin Commission is using PSI to quantify the landscape changes of their site retrofit using stormwater Best Management Practices.

The Pinelands Commission is evaluat- ing PSI to track impacts.

Applying Plant Stewardship in Your Municipality

The provided information and web links should enable you to get started on applying PSI in your community.

Join the efforts of other citizens and scientists to monitor New Jersey’s natural landscapes and record detailed plant data for your municipality.

● Work with your town to include a PSI survey as the format for recording the existing vegetation plant lists required by most municipal development ordinances. There is no cost to the municipality and little additional cost to the developer, since towns already have plant list information requirements.

● Ask a local or regional conservancy to use the PSI survey to assess their stewardship and to identify special habitats.

● Consider a gift of a PSI to your municipality to evaluate and protect publicly-owned lands. (Not every site should become a ball field.)

● Consider a PSI for your home landscape.

Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve (BHWP) (www.bhwp.org/db) offers botanical surveys and plant identifica- tion contract services to ensure that any group can implement PSI regardless of their current knowledge.

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(www.bhwp.org/psi/index.html)

● Calculator/Database This free online service automatically calcu- lates the FQI and PSI for any plant list in New Jersey.

● Classes Introductory and advanced classes at the Preserve about the use and implementation of the PSI.

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● Presentations Preserve staff available for offsite presentations.

● PSI Field Site Survey Preserve will arrange for experts trained in PSI to survey, analyze and evaluate vegetation on a given area, half and full- day fees.

Shine Your Light Through the Media

By Julia Lange Groth, ANJEC Resource Center Director

While some people are comfortable talking to the press, most of us tend to shy from the limelight, preferring to

“labor in the vineyard” rather than talk to some reporter about it. But effective environmental commissions understand the importance of communicating through the media. After all, how can you gain the participation and support of your community if no one knows what you’ve been up to?

Skillful use of media can help you accomplish your goals in the community by

● Educating the public about local environmental issues;

● Boosting attendance at important hearings and events;

● Informing residents about actions they can take to conserve resources and live in a more sustainable way;

● Attracting volunteers;

● Raising funds;

● Building momentum behind environmental initiatives.

Contacting an editor may be scary at first, but if you focus on your common goal – getting an interesting story told well and accurately – the process becomes much easier.

Get Good Press

Make a List of Local Media: Call all the print, radio and TV outlets in your area and ask who covers environmental stories for your town. (Hint – a good

● The body of your email message should be a one to two paragraph

“pitch letter,” summarizing why your story is important for readers to know about;

● Include the content of your release in the body of your message, below your signature (Some papers don’t like attachments);

● Include good quality digital photos whenever possible to get better placement for your story;

● Don’t forget to include your contact information, both phone and email.

Make Some Noise:

● Create a campaign with a catchy slogan and push it through a variety of communications, i.e. news stories, flyers, bumper stickers, door hangers, banners, mailers, etc.

● Stage a happening to reinforce your message, such as a mayor’s proclama- tion, open space tour, award cer- emony, tree planting, town meeting, river walk or poster contest.

Assistance from ANJEC

The Resource Center can help you pull

together facts and statistics for your news

releases, provide local media contact

information and offer general guidance on dealing with the press.

Each month we also send out a seasonal press release template that you can easily customize with local information. They’re designed to help provide useful information for readers while keeping your commission in the news and reminding your community about the great work you’re doing.

For help or information, call the Resource Center at (973) 539-7547 or email us at [email protected].

job for an eager volunteer) Make Contact with Media Staff:

Introduce yourself and offer to be a resource for quotes or background information on future environmental stories. Find out

● Whether the press prefers to receive stories by mail, email or fax;

● The best time during the week to call or send stories.

Make a Plan: Consider the environ- mental commission’s goals and what type of approach would best support them, i.e. a press

release, letter to the editor, op-ed column, radio interview or cable TV segment.

● Anticipate and prioritize your commission’s most newsworthy activities for the year;

● Develop a media schedule, allowing plenty of lead time for your news to hit the papers, local radio and TV;

● Keep your commission in the news by providing seasonal “fill stories”

during slow news periods, such as holidays.

Make It Easy for the Editors: They get hundreds of emails a day. Don’t make them read your whole press release to find out what it’s about.

● When emailing a press release, put your headline in the subject line of your message;

● Specimen ID Services Plant identi- fication at a per-specimen fee to aid institutions compile accurate plant lists.

● Consultations Preserve staff available to help other institutions discuss and develop floristic quality protocols.

● Contacts

o Jeannine Vannais,

[email protected], (215) 862-2924;

o Leslie Jones Sauer,

[email protected] (609) 397- 8248

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By Patty Elkis, PP, AICP; Associate Director of Comprehensive Planning, Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission

Applying

Conservation Design

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o community consciously sets out to destroy its natural resources, cultural heritage or scenic vistas, but many municipalities end up doing just that because they have rigid, conventional regulations that result in cookie- cutter, sterile subdivisions. Conserva- tion Design Ordinances (CDO) allow municipalities to use the development process to their advantage to perma- nently protect natural, scenic and cultural resources and, over time, to piece them together into an intercon- nected network, all the while maintain- ing landowner equity. Instead of consuming and fragmenting all of the land in a tract with uniform lots spread across in a checkerboard layout, CDO provisions focus on protecting the special features of a property. Through

CDO, municipalities can preserve quality open space without depending on limited open space funds for acquisitions, while at the same time creating a distinctive neighborhood for future residents.

Changes Needed to Apply Conservation Design Ordinances (CDO)

The CDO process involves making changes to the municipality’s master plan, zoning ordinance, and subdivision and land development ordinance.

The master plan must contain goals and analysis on the community’s desire to protect natural and cultural features, farmland, and/or scenic vistas to support CDO language. Changes to the zoning ordinance include

● Choosing in which districts to apply Conservation Design;

● Making Conservation Design man- datory for tracts over a certain size;

● Permitting density options (basic conservation with neutral density, country estates, very large lots with conservation easements preventing further subdivision, or increased open space for enhanced density);

● Requiring a minimum of 50 percent of the tract to remain as open space; and

● Adhering to specific design standards regarding layout, permitted uses, ownership, access and maintenance of the open space.

Conservation design requires changes to the subdivision ordinance that alters the way development applications are submitted and re- viewed. The new process will

● Require detailed existing resources and site analysis map of the prop- erty and a context map of the immediate area;

● Include a site walk with the appli- cant, municipal officials and property abutters at the outset;

● Strongly recommend a sketch plan as the first site layout document, prepared by a landscape architect or physical planner; and

● Require a Four-Step Design Process (see graphics).

An existing resources map up front is critical to provide more information on the site’s important features than is typically required. This approach will identify even the location of notewor- thy groves of trees, unusual geological formations, or stone ruins of old foundation walls. The context map demonstrates the property’s relation- ship to surrounding development patterns and resources.

A site walk by planning board members and staff, along with the applicant and adjacent landowners is essential. Abutting landowners appreci- ate being included and are much less inclined to fight a process that has incorporated their input from the outset. Walking the site together provides the best means to exchange ideas on locations for the development and conservation areas.

A sketch plan is a means for the applicant and municipality to discuss various layouts for the subdivision before time and money has been spent developing a preliminary plan.

The Four-Step Design Process involves

● Identifying the site’s natural, cultural and scenic features, starting with Primary Conservation Areas (regu- lated areas such as wetlands, flood- plains and steep slopes). Next are Secondary Conservation Areas which include features such as important habitat areas, groves of trees, unusual geological formations, and cultural features;

● Locating the house sites in the potential development area, locating them to maximize views and create a pleasant neighborhood;

In the 1990's Randall Arendt at the Natural Lands Trust (NLT), a non- profit regional land trust based in Media, Pennsylvania, developed Conservation Design, which has been applied around the country.

The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources has funded NLT staff to promote and implement the ordinances in the state's municipalities. Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commis- sion (DVRPC), the bi-state metro- politan planning organization for five Pennsylvania and four New Jersey counties in the Philadelphia area, trained under Arendt and NLT staff on CDO. Since 2004, funding from ANJEC's Smart Growth Planning Grants Program has supported DVRPC's development of Conservation Design Ordinances for five South Jersey townships:

Plumsted (Ocean), Woolwich (Gloucester), Pittsgrove (Salem), Pilesgrove (Salem) and Moorestown (Burlington).

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In this example (below), 18 lots can fragment the entire tract, or can be placed in the most appropriate areas, with over 50 percent of the tract and all of the Primary and Secondary Re- sources protected as open space. In addition, the Conservation Design layout requires fewer miles of streets, reducing impervious coverage and stormwater runoff.

Conservation Design Ordinance Benefits

Better than Cluster Regulations:

Several shortcomings of typical cluster regulations are better addressed through CDO. First, many cluster provisions are by conditional use, adding uncertainty and additional hearings for the applicant, whereas Conservation Design is “by-right”.

Second, cluster provisions often only apply to large tracts of 25 acres or greater, whereas the CDO can apply to tracts as small as 5 or 6 acres. Third, many cluster regulations provide a density bonus; in contrast, the CDO provides for full density with a minimum of 50 percent open space and with open space design standards ensuring meaningful set-aside lands.

Improved Sewage Disposal: The conventional opinion is that smaller lots in a Conservation Design make it

more difficult to develop without public sewers, but the opposite is actually true. The flexibility inherent in the design of Conservation Subdivi- sions allows the lots to be placed on the most suitable soils of the property, rather than to be spread across the tract, with some on well-drained soils and some on mediocre or poorly draining soils.

Higher Economic Value of CDO Subdivisions: It is well documented that people will pay more to live near protected open space and in park-like settings, even offsetting the tendency to pay less for smaller lots. A recent paper by Rayman Mohamed from Wayne State University (Michigan) concludes that lots in Conservation Design Subdivisions sell for more, are less expensive to build, and sell more quickly than conventional subdivision lots.

Conservation Design in New Jersey Communities

Woolwich Township (Gloucester) is one of the fastest growing municipalities in the state. To counter the loss of contiguous open space and farmland, members of the planning board and environmental commission met almost monthly for a year with DVRPC staff to craft the ordinance. Having members from both groups work together saved much time in communicating to their members. Since its adoption, the CDO has been used in numerous subdivision applications and has resulted in helping keep rural aspects of the township.

Plumsted Township (Ocean) is a rural community near Fort Dix. A CDO was recommended in its Conservation

Element. Up to that point, the township had been negotiating open space preservation on a case-by-case basis with developers. A CDO committee was formed with DVRPC staff, planning board and environmental commission members, with the mayor and council members attending some meetings as well. This process allowed various concerns to be addressed before the ordinance was presented to town council for adoption. The ordinance has been meeting its objectives: recently, a 20-acre parcel that would have been subdivided into about four five-acre lots will instead be subdivided into four two- plus acre lots with a separate 10-acre lot held as common open space.

Moorestown Township (Burlington) is an almost built-out community on Route 38 in South Jersey. However, the township does have several hundred acres of remaining open space lands that it is interested in conserving. As an affluent suburb of Philadelphia, land prices are high, limiting the amount of land the municipality could afford to purchase as open space. The township considered down-zoning its non- sewered area as a means to protect natural resources, but changed course based on property owner objections.

CDO was sought as a means to help protect and connect remaining open spaces without encountering opposi- tion, since the approach is neutral on density. A committee of township council, planning board, environmental advisory board, open space committee, township staff and DVRPC representatives has been working on the ordinance since the fall of 2006, with adoption expected by the fall of 2007.

● Drawing in the streets (and trails, if desired) to connect the houses; and

● Drawing in the lot lines.

The Four-Step Design Process reverses the sequence of steps in laying out conven- tional subdivisions, where the street systems and lot lines are considered the most important feature, and typically encompass every square foot of the tract.

Conventional subdivision yields 18 lots

Identifying primary conservation areas Conservation design yields 18 lots and 50 percent land preservation

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By Kerry Miller, ANJEC Assistant Director

ANJEC Awards

25 Grants Totaling

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Pittsgrove Township (Salem) and Pilesgrove Township (Salem) have each worked on CDO ordinances with CDO subcommittees, DVRPC staff and their municipal planners for about a year and are currently fine-tuning the CDO language to meet municipal needs.

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● Natural Land Trust’s Growing Greener: Conservation by Design at www.natlands.org/categories/

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● Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission at www.dvrpc.org

● The Economics of Conservation Subdivisions – Price Premiums, Improvements Costs, and Absorp- tion Rates, Urban Affairs Review, Volume 41, No. 3, January 2006, Rayman Mohamed, Wayne State University

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● Natural Lands Trust, Media, PA

● Kerry Miller, ANJEC Assistant Director

● Miquel Garces, Chair, Plumsted (Ocean) Environmental Commission

● Alex Elefante, member, Woolwich (Gloucester) Environmental Com- mission

● Bob Hall, Director of Community Development, Moorestown (Burlington)

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wenty-four New Jersey municipalities and one county are about to embark on comprehensive land use planning projects made possible by the 2007 Smart Growth Planning Grants from ANJEC. This is the sixth year of the match-

ing grants program, generously funded by the

Geraldine R.

Dodge Foundation (www.grdodge.org).

The most recent round of grants totals

$180,000 and brings the program well over the million dollar

mark in grants to municipalities. In a few short years, fully one third (128) of the towns in New Jersey with environmental commissions have received planning money through this vital program. Competition for the grants is robust; this year ANJEC received 65 applications totaling $760,000 – four times the dollar amount available.

By underwriting Smart Growth grants since 2002, the Dodge Foundation has leveraged over a million additional dollars in municipal budget funds, other grants and in-kind services for developing documents such as Environ- mental/Natural Resource Inventories (ERIs/NRIs), open space plans, conservation elements, groundwater studies, buildout analyses, ordinances, bike/

pedestrian plans and more. That doesn’t include the millions of dollars in Green Acres and state Farmland

Preservation grants acquired by towns after submitting open space and farmland preservation plans developed through ANJEC’s Dodge Foundation- funded Smart Growth program.

ANJEC recently surveyed past grant recipients, and a consistent theme in the responses was that the projects would not have gone forward without the

“carrot” of matching funds from the Smart Growth program.

With the absence of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection’s (NJDEP) Environmental Services Program grants over the past two years, ANJEC’s Dodge Foundation-funded Smart Growth program is one of the few sources of financing local environmental planning in New Jersey, and the only source that targets environmental commissions. Smart Growth grants provide, in addition to the obvious benefits of strong, environmentally-based planning documents, an opportunity for environmental commissions to learn about and participate more fully in their towns’ land use process.

Regional Projects

Under expanded eligibility guide- lines in 2007, Camden County will be the first county to receive a Smart Growth grant. It will utilize the funds to is proud to be a member

of Earth Share of New Jersey Talk to us about how you can include Earth Share of New Jersey and ANJEC as a giving option in your workplace.

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develop a Central Camden County Bicycling and Multi-Use Trails Master Plan for ten contiguous municipalities – Berlin Borough and Township, Voorhees, Hi-Nella, Gibbsboro, Somerdale, Stratford, Laurel Springs, Clementon and Lindenwold. The project will incorporate various existing municipal bikeway and multi- use trails plans and inventories into a coherent regional plan that will include a prioritized capital improvements program and establish uniform design standards for both on- and off- road facilities. Working in concert, the participating municipalities hope to take advantage of construction funding opportunities they might not have access to as individuals.

Mine Hill, Randolph and Chester Townships (Morris) will receive funding for a joint project, the

Lamington River Watershed Study and Restoration Plan. This regional effort, coordinated by the Raritan Highlands Compact, with technical services by Rutgers University Water Resources Program, will study sources of fecal coliform contamination (a biological pollution indicator) in the Lamington River and develop enhanced GIS stream mapping and a comprehensive plan for reducing the coliform load.

Morris County and New Jersey Water Supply Authority are contributing in- kind services.

Individual Municipal Projects

Once again in 2007, a significant number of applications were for environmental/natural resource inventories (ERIs/NRIs), which NJDEP’s Environmental Services grants tradi- tionally supported before the program lost its funding. ERIs/NRIs are the information source on which all other land use plans should be based, and ANJEC gives strong consideration to qualified applications for this category of projects. Funded ERIs this year will cover 11 municipalities (including one joint effort) in nine counties.

● Belmar (Monmouth)

● Closter (Bergen)

● Elk (Gloucester) – and a Farmland Preservation Plan

● Franklin Township (Somerset)

● Howell (Monmouth)

● Milltown (Middlesex) – partial

● Point Pleasant (Ocean) – and an Open Space Plan

● Princeton Township & Borough (Mercer) – Joint

● South Harrison (Gloucester) – and an Open Space Plan

● Tewksbury (Hunterdon)

And 11 municipalities in eight counties will receive funding for a range of Smart Growth planning efforts.

● Andover Township (Sussex) – Open Space & Recreation Plan

● Cranford (Union) – Conservation Element

● Holmdel (Monmouth) – Conserva- tion Easement Study

● Hopewell Township (Mercer) – Sustainability Plan

● Kingwood (Hunterdon) – Conserva- tion Element

● Long Hill (Morris) – Master Plan Updates

● Maplewood (Essex) – Open Space &

Recreation Plan

● Stanhope (Sussex) – Pedestrian/

Bicycle Circulation & Greenway Trails Plan

● Summit (Union) – Sustainability Plan

● Tinton Falls (Monmouth) – Buildout Analysis

● West Milford (Passaic) – Green Infra- structure Plan for West Milford Lake

Grant Eligibility

To be eligible for a grant, a town must have a functioning environmental commission that will manage or participate in the project. In addition to working with consultants and other boards on the projects, environmental commissions involve and inform residents about the projects through surveys, press releases, newsletter and

Check out the Directory at www.anjec.org and click on “Environmental Consultants”

Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

Information on environmental professionals and businesses operating in New Jersey and surround- ing regions. You can search by keyword (including company name) or service area.

ANJEC’s Directory of

Environmental Consultants ANJEC’s Directory of

Environmental Consultants

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web site articles, information booths at public events, as well as public meetings and hearings.

The Dodge Foundation will be funding the Smart Growth Planning Grant Program through ANJEC again in 2008. We strongly encourage environ- mental commissions to discuss potential projects with their elected officials, planning boards and potential consultant partners now, to assure budgeting for the municipal match if they plan to apply for a Smart Growth Grant in the upcoming year. Grant application packets will be mailed out to commissions and municipalities in mid- January 2008.

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Greenwood Lake Trail PHOTO BY WILMA FREY

Highlands Regional Master Plan

By Dave Peifer, ANJEC Highlands Project Director

he Highlands Council is moving forward with Draft Regional Manage- ment Plan (RMP) with a final plan expected sometime in the fall. Follow- ing the final RMP’s adoption, municipalities wholly or partially in the Preservation Areas, must have the master plans and zoning ordinances consistent with the RMP for the Preservation Area land. Municipalities and portions of municipalities in the Planning Area will have the voluntary option of conforming to the RMP.

ANJEC strongly recommends that municipalities form a Highlands Working Group of elected and ap- pointed officials and public to facilitate the conformance process locally.

Participation by the local environmental commission is essential.

The Draft RMP, issued for public comment on November 30, 2006, elicited thousands of comments during the comment period that closed May 11, 2007. This vast assortment of comments have been received, collected, and organized into a “searchable” data base (www. highlands.state. nj.us/njhighlands/

search_comments. html). Environmental commissions may wish to review the comments to develop familiarity with the issues raised by the public.

Responding to this mass of public comment in the revised RMP will be a daunting task for the Highlands Council. To assist with this task, the Council has hired Siemon and Larsen, a nationally known planning firm to work closely with staff in the preparation of the final plan. Siemon and Larsen has had extensive experience in New Jersey with the preparation of plans for the Pinelands and the State Develop- ment and Redevelopment Plan.

Additionally, the Council continues to work on the Transfer of Develop- ment Rights (TDR) program, with contracts to Integra Realty and water resource issues with an extended contract to the US Geologic Survey (USGS). An important further evalua- tion of water resources by the USGS is expected to produce estimates of available water by municipality, a tool of great utility to municipalities. Other issues currently under consideration by the Highlands Council’s Natural Resources Committee include reviews of historic and scenic elements, procedures review for amendments to Water Quality Management Plans, and for Highlands redevelopment site approvals.

Farewell to a Friend of

Nature

Martine Donofrio, Chair, Millburn Environmental

Commission

Creative and passionate environmental advocate, Martine E.

Donofrio, died too young at the age of 61 in April, 2007. Her love

for children and concern for future generations always seemed to be at the heart of her actions.

Millburn (Essex) Environ- mental Commission Chair, Martine was inspired to create Aquafest, an innovative educational program for local school children that won an ANJEC Environmental Achieve- ment Award in 2005 and has become an annual event in Millburn schools. At ANJEC’s Environmental Congress last year, she was among the highest-rated speakers for her animated talk on teaching children about the water cycle.

Martine also devoted untold hours to the Millburn Planning Board and Deer Management Task Force, and was an active member of the Rahway River Association, the Great Swamp Watershed Association, the Nature Conser- vancy and the Morris Land Conservancy.

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Information commissions can duplicate to use in their communities

Multiple Benefits of Locally-Grown Food

Today, the local supermarkets’ produce could come from just about anywhere.

The global marketplace allows us a constant, abundant variety of “fresh”

foods, unlimited by season. But this luxury does have hidden costs – both economic and environmental.

Government transportation and agricultural subsidies can obscure the true economic costs. Environmental costs come, in large part, from transport and refrigeration during transport. On average, produce travels well over 1,000 miles to market. It takes a lot of fuel, generating a lot of air pollution and greenhouse gasses, to get that produce where it is going. Buying produce grown closer to home is one way to reduce one’s carbon footprint – that is, to cut one’s contribution of the gasses that cause global climate change.

In addition to energy and carbon savings, there are a number of good reasons to seek out locally-grown food.

Buying locally-grown food

● Supports families and independent farmers in our communities, keeping agriculture viable in New Jersey.

● Helps keep our state’s farming areas rural, where open lands provide environmental benefits like aquifer recharge and habitat for wildlife. A lot of the preserved open space in New Jersey is purchased through New Jersey’s farmland preservation program.

Locally-grown food

● Is fresher, retaining more of its nutrients and taste. It hasn’t been on the road for days and can remain

“on the vine” until it is ripe, instead of being picked early to ripen during transport.

● May require less packaging. Food that will be in transit for days needs to be protected, often by plastic and Styrofoam packing.

even provides recipes that feature produce from New Jersey.

Supporting Local Agriculture

An excellent way to support local agri- culture is to participate in community- supported agriculture (CSA). This term

refers to a subscription arrangement where customers pay in advance to receive a weekly selection, or share, of produce from one farm throughout an entire growing season. The share will contain some of each fruit and vegetable, as it is harvested. This type of purchas- ing works within nature’s time- table. It gives the farmer certainty that she has buyers for her entire crop, cutting marketing costs during the growing season and allowing her to give each shareholder the most for the money. CSA farms are often organic.

For more information on organic and CSA farms, contact Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Jersey (www.nofanj.org); (609)737-6848 or Local Harvest Inc. (www.localharvest.org).

Of course, the ultimate in eating locally is having your own garden. But if you don’t have the time or skills to grow your own, you can reduce your food miles and go easier on the earth by checking out the bounty New Jersey’s farmers have to offer.

Farm Market PHOTO BY PETER CRAIG

Interacting with the farmers who grow their food will

● Help your children or grandchildren gain a broader picture of the natural world and how food is produced, something they will surely not get in the vegetable section of the supermarket.

● Give adults a chance to get to know the farmer and ask ques- tions about his practices. Is any of the food organically grown? Are the eggs from free- range chickens?

Give and take between the farmer and the customer allows him to be more responsive to their needs and concerns.

In addition to well-known New Jersey crops such as

corn, tomatoes, cranberries and blueberries, Garden State farmers grow a long list of fruits and vegetables, from beans, beets and broc- coli to pumpkins and spinach. The New Jersey Department of Agriculture sponsors programs that promote locally-grown products through labeling (as Jersey Fresh or Jersey Grown), advertising, and a web site (www.state.nj.us/jerseyfresh) that helps residents locate and access locally- grown produce at roadside stands, pick-your-own farms and community farmer’s markets in their area. The website also shows what fruits and vegetables are harvested when, and

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Acting Locally

By Julia Lange Groth, ANJEC Resource Center Director

Cape May City to Develop Energy Master Plan

The Cape May City Environmental Commission aims to make the whole town more energy efficient. At the City Council’s first 2007 meeting, Commis- sion Chair Charlotte Todd proposed a municipal Energy Master Plan, with a special new committee to explore long- and short-term goals. The township’s new Energy Master Plan (EMP)

Committee has covered a lot of ground.

Since the municipality’s desalination plant’s electricity costs more than

$250,000 annually, the committee began exploring green energy alterna- tives that could also save taxpayer money. The commission invited several experts to speak to municipal officials including an Atlantic County Utilities Authority executive, who described the agency’s efforts to reduce energy use by installing wind turbines to power its wastewater processing plant.

EMP Commit- tee members have been working actively to spread the word to citizens.

● Presenting local groups with an energy trivia quiz, offering green prizes, like compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs or reusable

shopping bags with 200 CFL bulbs and discount coupons donated by a local hardware store;

● Successfully encouraging the local paper to publish simple energy conserving tips, including caulking and weather stripping around windows and doors, insulating the attic, choosing high efficiency

heating and air conditioning, and using energy efficient lighting;

● Planning a series of letters to the editor to keep the importance of energy conservation on readers’

minds.

At the city’s annual July 4 celebration, Mayor Jerome Inderwies officially signed the Climate Protection Agree- ment, committing the municipality to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This summer the city will also send out pamphlets twice to every resident in their tax and water bills to encourage choosing green energy and reducing consumption.

Asbury Park (Monmouth) is Blooming

Environmental Shade Tree Commis- sion members don’t object to being called a bunch of shady characters – because the city has made a big dent in its carbon footprint by planting almost 1,000 trees over the past year.

Mature trees consume as much as 14 pounds of carbon dioxide per year.

In April, at the state’s annual Arbor Day at Asbury Park, the commission won the New Jersey Forestry Program’s 2007 Joyce Kilmer Award for its outstanding commitment to managing and caring for trees. At 8 am that day about 200 volunteers started to help plant 100 cherry trees around Sunset Lake, along with ornamental grasses to deter geese, and roses to beautify the Veterans Memorial Park.

Along with other municipal officials, the commission also organized a May

town meeting to envision a smaller carbon footprint, a cleaner environment and a better quality of life for all Asbury Park’s residents. Generated ideas included

● A jitney service to transport people around town, reducing traffic and greenhouse gas emissions;

● Installing LED traffic lights; and

● Encouraging green building practices for new construction. (Asbury Park currently has seven redevelopment projects in the works.)

Wenonah (Gloucester)

Celebrates Nature’s Cleanup Crew

About five years ago, up to 200 turkey and black vultures began wintering in Wenonah after loosing their previous winter roost to development. The Wenonah Environmental Commission and the Gloucester County Nature Club have hosted two annual East Coast Vulture Festivals to acknowledge the vulture’s important role in cleansing the environment. This year the event began with a vulture flyover, featuring South Jersey singer/

songwriter Jim Six, performing his song, Welcome to the Roadkill Café.

Mary Redus of Sussex County read her poem about vultures that was im- printed on a commemorative T-shirt.

A special promotional web site (www.eastcoastvulturefestival.org) now carries informative facts about vultures, press clippings and pictures of residents wearing vulture costumes at the festival.

“This event has drawn considerable interest not just for the fun, but also the educational aspect of how the loss of habitat affects all of us,” says environmental commission chair Bob Bevilacqua. “We wanted this educational program to show how all animals have a defined role in nature.”

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By Barbara Palmer, ANJEC Land Use Planning Project Director

New Faces at the Office of Smart Growth (OSG) and the State Planning Commission (SPC)

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In June Governor John Corzine appointed Benjamin Spinelli as Executive Director of the Office of Smart Growth (OSG), replacing Eileen Swan, who became the Executive Director of the Highlands Council in April. Spinelli had been Chief Counsel and Director of Policy at OSG for the past year and served as Mayor of Chester Township (Morris) from 1998 until 2007. A trial attorney by training, he worked for Chubb Group Insurance Companies and Wald & Del Vento, P.A. as well as serving as an assistant Essex County prosecutor from 1984-1986.

Former chairman of the Morris County Open Space Trust Fund and the Chester Township Environmental Commission, Spinelli has been a member of the Highlands Council, the Chester Township Planning Board, the New Jersey Conference of Mayors and

the New Jersey Conservation Founda- tion-Black River Greenway Advisory Council, and served as president of the Morris County League of Municipalities and the Raritan-Highlands Compact.

The Governor has also nominated new members to the State Planning Commission (SPC). The legislation requires seven public members, five local government representatives and seven representatives of state agencies.

For several years the SPC has had vacant seats for public members.

ANJEC repeatedly asked the

Governor’s Office to fill these seats as

soon as possible in order to meet the State Planning Act’s require- ment for public representation

during important discussions and policy decisions on

Cross-Acceptance and the next edition of the State

Plan as well as the revision of the Plan Endorsement process.

New local government Commission representatives appointed by Gover-

nor Corzine include

● Robert Bowser, Mayor of the City of East

Orange (Essex)

● Louise Wilson, Deputy Mayor of Montgomery Town- ship (Somerset) and

● Shing-Fu Hsueh, Mayor, West Windsor Township (Mercer).

One local government representative seat remains open.

The new Public Commission member is Patrick Morrissy, Executive Director of Housing and Neighborhood Development Services, Inc., a non- profit organization based in Orange (Essex). The Commission chair, which must be a public member, remains vacant, pending an appointment.

The State Planning Commission’s monthly meetings in Trenton are open to the public with public comment taken at each meeting. For the meeting schedule, agendas, minutes of prior meetings, and other meeting materials, go to www.nj.gov/dca/osg/commissions/

spc/index.shtml.

New Jersey Supreme Court Eminent Domain Decision

By Kerry Margaret Butch, Urban Environment Project Director On June 13, 2007 the New Jersey

Supreme Court ruled in favor of the landowner in Gallenthin v. Paulsboro (Gloucester). The municipality at- tempted to acquire through eminent domain 63 acres of undeveloped land, located on Mantua Creek near the Delaware River, from the Gallenthin family for a private developer to build a deepwater port. William Potter,

attorney for Gallenthin observed, “It is a case with significance for blighted area controversies statewide, whether the properties are vacant or covered in

buildings.... The Court went out of its way to review the constitutional definition of the term ‘blighted area’ – going back to its historical roots – and in so doing the seven justices taught a ‘history lesson’ for planning boards that they cannot use the ‘Local Redevelopment and Housing Law’ for homes, businesses, or neighborhoods simply because the city thinks it can find a better use for them.... Such factors as planning conve- nience or a desire to control future development or increase ratables will not ever again suffice.”

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Leading the Charge on Discharge

By Kerry Margaret Butch, ANJEC Urban Environment Project Director

When the New York/New Jersey Baykeeper and the Hackensack and Raritan Riverkeepers (Keepers) look out over our state's harbors and estuaries where rivers meet the sea waters, they see an extraordinary natural treasure in great jeopardy.

Each year, 280 Combine Sewer Flows (CSOs) discharge billions of gallons of untreated water and degrade New Jersey water quality in the harbor estuary, the Passaic, Raritan, and Hackensack Rivers.

The Keepers are convinced that New Jersey Department of Environmental

Protection’s (NJDEP’s) recent Stormwater Management Plans’ is inadequate due to its lack of Low Impact Development (LID) of stormwater components are inadequate. They’ve called on NJDEP to require municipalities to incorporate LID given its environmental and economic benefits. Focused too often on engineered end-of-pipe solutions, saddled with hefty price tags, these measures are not realistic according to the Keepers and will never offer adequate water protection.

Bayonne’s Proposed Program

The Keepers feel strongly that concentrating efforts on LID, and treating rainfall on site, will infiltrate stormwater water back into the ground and limit the amount entering the Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs).

They point to a Columbia University study that cites Bayonne’s proposed interesting program’s cost effective and environmentally sound measures.

What happens when an engineer estimates using centralized storage facilities to reduce CSOs in Bayonne will cost $80 to $198 million, with additional annual oversight and management costs of $335,000 to

$520,000? Taxpayers and municipal

Abbreviations

● CSOs - Combined Sewer Over- flows

● Keepers - New York/New Jersey Baykeeper, Hackensack Riverkeeper and Raritan Riverkeeper

● LID - Low Impact Development of stormwater

● NJDEP - New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection

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Annual Meeting and

Election of Board members

Friday, October 12

Environmental Congress

Mercer County Community College Conference Center, West Windsor

OFFICERS

Two-year term elections

Vice President of Development – Nancy Tindall, financial services

consultant, Washington Township (Mercer) Affordable Housing Advisory Committee, Mercer County Open Space Preservation Board

Treasurer – Joy Grafton, Esq. former secretary, Edison (Middlesex) Environmental Commission

TRUSTEES

Three-year terms

Union Marion Glenn, PhD, Chair, Summit Environmental Commission

Hunterdon Peter H. Craig VMD, retired veterinarian pathologist, Chair, Holland Township (Hunterdon) Planning Board

officials cringe. But according to Franco Montalto, PhD, President, eDesign Dynamics LLC and Research Fellow, The Earth Institute at Columbia University, they don’t need such high financial investments.

After studying a Bayonne neighborhood and surveying residents, a group of Columbia students offered a simple and cost effective solution – capture the stormwater before it enters the sewer system. By following this proposal, one Bayonne neighborhood could divert 87 percent of the stormwater entering the CSO’s for a fraction of the cost.

The students propose the following for the Bayonne study area.

● Downspout Disconnect Program:

Completely divert approximately 160 million gallons of runoff (22 percent of annual rainfall) from the combined sewer system for

$675,000;

● Rain Garden Program: Use rain gardens to capture runoff in shallow depressions long enough for it to infiltrate into the ground or evapo- rate lowering developed sites’ peak

After studying a Bayonne neigh- borhood and surveying residents, a group of Columbia students offered a simple and cost effec- tive solution – capture the stormwater before it enters the sewer system.

runoff rates, and filtering pollutants like oil, grease, and heavy metals.

Rain gardens could detain and/or retain runoff from redirected roof leaders, and infiltrate runoff from impervious driveways, lawns, and street surfaces. Fifty square foot rain gardens in front and back yards throughout the study area would divert approximately 55 percent of annual rainfall from the combined sewer system estimated cost of

$1.8 million.

● “Green Belt” Program: Install

“green belts” of retrofitted two-foot wide rain gardens along all street

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ANJEC members can also make additional nominations

at the annual meeting.

surfaces and/or along the length of the light rail right-of-way. Specially designed to capture ½-inch of rainfall from either side of all streets these areas would capture approximately 10 percent of the study area’s annual rainfall for approximately

$2 million.

“It’s in the state’s best interest to include the much less costly and more environmentally friendly LID in stormwater management plans.

Municipalities are more likely to adopt these in the short run,” summed up Andy Willner, executive director, New York/New Jersey Baykeepers.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

● On the Bayonne study or future pilot projects, Betsy McDonald,

New York/New Jersey Baykeeper at [email protected] and (732) 888-9870.

● New York/New Jersey Baykeeper, www.nynjbaykeeper.org

● Hackensack Riverkeeper, www.HackensackRiverkeeper.org

● Raritan Riverkeeper

www.nynjbaykeeper.org/programs/43

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