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Is Your Community Growing Smart?

You’ve learned all about smart growth—how it adds new homes, offices, businesses, and jobs to New Jersey’s economy while enhancing existing communities. It achieves this without raising taxes, worsening traffic, or harming our farmland, beaches, woodlands, and open spaces.

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But is Your Community Truly “Smart”?

Where Can It Improve?

These smart growth scorecards are user-friendly tools designed to help residents and decision-makers evaluate development proposals and municipal planning. Easy to use, they highlight strengths and weaknesses in smart growth where you live.

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Learn About Smart Growth

Want to understand more about smart urban planning? Explore the resources below!

Smart Growth in Your Town
Smart Growth in Your Town
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Smart Growth Data
Smart Growth Data
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Smart Growth Media
Smart Growth Media
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Smart Growth Awards

Since 2002, New Jersey Future has honored smart planning and redevelopment in New Jersey through the Smart Growth Awards. The projects and plans represent some of the best examples of sustainable growth and redevelopment in the state.

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