N.J. Admin. Code § 15:30-7.1 - Introduction

(a) The State Planning Act includes the legislative finding that significant economies, efficiencies, and savings in the development process would be realized by private sector enterprise and by public sector development agencies if the several levels of government would cooperate in preparing and adhering to sound and integrated plans. The Legislature further observed that a State Development and Redevelopment Plan needed to be designed for use as a tool for assessing suitable locations for infrastructure, housing, economic growth, and conservation. The Legislature emphasized the importance of providing local governments in this State with the technical resources and guidance necessary to assist them in developing land use plans and procedures, which are based on sound planning information and practice, and to facilitate the development of local plans, which are consistent with State and regional plans and programs. To achieve the desired sound planning, the State Planning Act mandates that the Office of State Planning (predecessor to the Office of Planning Advocacy) provide advice and assistance to regional, county, and local planning units.

(b) The State Planning Act specifically authorizes and requires the Office of State Planning to provide planning service to other agencies or instrumentalities of State government, to review the plans prepared by them, and to coordinate planning so as to avoid or mitigate conflicts between plans.

(c) The State Planning Act also requires the Office of State Planning to develop and promote procedures to facilitate cooperation and coordination among State agencies, regional entities, and local governments with regard to the development of plans, programs and policies, which affect land use, environmental, capital and economic development issues.

(d) The goals, policies, targets and indicators of the State Plan have been designed to address the concerns of the need to maintain beneficial growth, improve environmental quality, insure cost-effective delivery of infrastructure and other public services, improve governmental coordination, preserve the quality of community life and redevelop the State's major urban areas. Implementation of the State Plan is expected to achieve a balance among these concerns and to maximize the well-being for the State and its residents.

(e) This Plan Endorsement subchapter delineates the process developed by the Office of Planning Advocacy (successor to Office of State Planning) to increase the degree of consistency among municipal, county, regional, and State agency plans and the State Plan and to facilitate implementation of these plans.

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N.J. Admin. Code § 15:30-7.1

Amended and Recodified from 5:85-7.1 by 56 N.J.R. 41(b), effective 1/2/2024