New Jersey Fast-Track Permit Streamlining To Be Repealed
24 December 2004 - 9:00am
New Jersey's fast-track Permit Streamlining is called 'fundamentally flawed' and will be repealed.
The fast-track Permit Streamlining in the Smart Growth Areas Act --passed just six days after its introduction in June, severely criticized by environmental, housing and labor groups as too hasty, and suspended for at least seven months by Governor James E. McGreevey before hisNovember resignation -- will be extensively amended or repealed andreplaced with more thoughtful, transparent and comprehensive smartgrowth legislation.
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Easy-in may be easy-out for fast-track provision
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New Jersey Online, December 14, 2004
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