The NYT is reporting that New Jersey is running out of developable land, but with the recent ARC decision, the legacy of the Mount Laurel doctrine, and decades of highway-based suburbanizing policies, is New Jersey actually ready for density?
New Jersey has always been an odd state – it's the most densely populated of the fifty, and yet it lies just outside of the core of both of its metro areas (Philadelphia and New York). North Jersey does have a formidable number of mid-sized cities, but the biggest – Newark - is a poster child for urban neglect, and New Jersey's urban areas play a tepid second fiddle to their much larger counterparts across the Delaware and the Hudson. New Jersey's appeal lies undeniably in its suburbs, which are connected by a network of government-built roads and enabled by anti-density development rules.
Despite New Jersey's predilection for sprawl, the New York Times reports that the state may literally be running out of horizontal space. A Rutgers study claims that around the middle of the 21st century New Jersey will become the first state to develop all its unprotected land development trends remain unchanged.
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