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“If
New Jersey is ever going to embrace smart growth, advocates and
stakeholders are first going to have to agree as to what it is — and
isn’t.” 

That’s NJ Spotlight‘s setup line for its roundtable discussion on Friday in Trenton dubbed
The Growing Conflict Over Smart Growth.

Over a free lunch, you can learn how the Republican administration of Gov. Chris Christie is overhauling the State Plan
and crafting a new strategy aimed at spurring
economic growth while preserving New Jersey’s few remaining open spaces
and farmland.
Previous administrations have taken their own approaches to channeling growth with generally disappointing results. Will the Christie administration’s vision prove more effective?

That’s just one of the questions to
be explored by a panel of planning experts including:
Dan
Kennedy, Deputy Director, Office for Planning Advocacy, Business Action
Center, Department of State; Eileen Swan, former Executive Director,
Highlands Council; Peter Kasabach,  Executive Director, New Jersey
Future;  Robert Antonicello, Executive Director, Jersey City
Redevelopment Agency, and John Weingart, Associate Director, Eagleton
Institute of Politics, Rutgers University.  Tom Johnson, environment editor and co-founder of NJ Spotlight, will be the moderator.

Sounds like an interesting discussion. Did we mention that lunch is free?  

For a link you can use to register, visit our Enviro-Events Calendar where you’ll find dozens more upcoming events. 

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