Gentle Density and Missing Middle Housing in New Jersey
In New Jersey, as in much of the U.S., prospective homeowners and tenants often face a choice between single-family homes
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Development & Redevelopment
Guide to Joint Development for Public Transportation Agencies
Report link: Guide to Joint Development for Public Transportation Agencies
TCRP’s recently released report provides detailed guidelines and best practices on the real estate development process that occurs on transit agency property or through some other type of development transaction to which the transit agency is a party.
Reimagining Bloomfield Streets
This fall 2018 studio led by VTC’s Stephanie DiPetrillo and Leigh Ann Von Hagen explored ways to improve access by all modes of travel to the Watsessing Avenue Station and provided recommendations to enhance existing assets in support of overall health, wellness, and equity in Bloomfield Township, New Jersey.
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Are We There Yet? Creating Complete Communities for 21st Century America
Report link: Are We There Yet?
Reconnecting America’s 2012 research study on complete communities across the United States provides a timely look into how cities can recover from the COVID-19 crisis in the coming months and years. The study focuses on city characteristics that allow their residents to live, work, move, and thrive. Indicators used in the study provide a baseline to show what was making cities successful before the pandemic hit, and where they can begin building complete communities.
Communities are Embracing Development near Transit
Report link: Communities are Embracing Development near Transit
A 2017 AARP report provides a snapshot of the policy and planning supports employed by state, regional, and local actors to support transit oriented development (TOD) from 2015 to 2016 and suggests that the number and variety of TOD programs and policies at all levels of government have grown significantly.
Rutgers Regional Report: The ‘Burbs’ Bounce Back: ‘Trendlet’ or ‘Dead Cat Bounce’?
Report link: Rutgers Regional Report: The ‘Burbs’ Bounce Back: ‘Trendlet’ or ‘Dead Cat Bounce’?
A 2018 Rutgers Regional Report examines whether a recent increase in suburban population in the New York metropolitan region is an irregularity or a notable shift from a larger, post-2010 reurbanization trend.
Four Communities Share Key Lessons Learned from Creative Placemaking on Vacant Properties
Report link: Creative Placemaking on Vacant Properties: Lessons Learned from Four Cities
Center for Community Progress, with Metris Arts Consulting, shows how creative placemaking can be used as a critical tool to support equitable revitalization.
School-Age Children in Rental Units in New Jersey: Results from a Survey of Developers and Property Managers
Report link: School-Age Children in Rental Units in New Jersey: Results from a Survey of Developers and Property Managers
A study completed in July 2018 by the Rutgers Center for Real Estate estimates the number of school-age children associated with recent constructed New Jersey market-rate and affordable rental units.
Boonton Transit Oriented Development
The report, presentation, and poster result from the 2016 Boonton TOD Studio, which sought to assist the Morris County Town of Boonton (pop. 8500) advance its transit-friendly redevelopment goals.
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Resources Highlight Maryland’s TOD Potential
Report link: Planning Tools for Transit-Oriented Development
A new online resource released by the State of Maryland promotes TOD policies and opportunities at the state’s more than 100 transit station.