Public Meetings on Transfer of Development Rights Begin Tonight
By Jon Whiten • Aug 12th, 2010 • Category: Blog, News
Jersey City’s Planning Division has received state Office of Smart Growth grants to conduct a study about how best to implement Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) in the city, and a series of three public meetings on the process begins tonight.
TDR is a planning device used to preserve historic structures while continuing to allow a certain amount of growth in an older urban area. According to Eastern Michigan University’s Urban and Regional Planning Program, TDR programs “allow owners of buildings in zoning districts where more intense develop ment is permitted to sell that development potential to owners of other sites.” TDR concepts implemented in Philadelphia, San Francisco and other cities have been deemed to be successful. (For more background on TDR, check out the fact sheet embedded below, from the American Farmland Trust.)
The three public meetings are an effort “to obtain feedback to guide the preservation and enhancement of the city’s most critical community resources, as well as to create a vision for the redevelopment projects that they are located within,” according to the city.
Discussion of Citywide Preservation Needs (Open Space and Historic)
Thursday, August 12, 6 to 9 pm
Hudson County Community College’s Culinary Conference Center
161 Newkirk St.
Jersey Avenue (between 10th and 18th Streets) Neighborhood Revitalization
Thursday, August 19, 6:30 to 9:30 pm
Golden Door Charter School
180 9th St.
Gregory Park Neighborhood Revitalization
Thursday, August 26, 6 to 9 pm
City Hall
280 Grove St.
To RSVP to any of of the meetings, email Ivan Freire at freirei (at) jcnj.org.
TDR Fact Sheet from the American Farmland Trust
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Jon Whiten is the founding editor of the Jersey City Independent; he now works for a public-policy nonprofit in Trenton.
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