Land

Fill current Highlands Council and Pinelands Commission vacancies with environmental leaders that reflect gender and ethnic diversity along with years of experience and expertise in governance and environmental protections.

Increase overall funding in the state budget for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection to ensure the agency can protect natural resources, process permits quickly and accurately, and enforce laws regarding off-road vehicle use, wetlands protection, and illegal dumping.

Pursue policies with the support of tribal voices to empower their action on environmental issues, including expanding opportunities for the inclusion of Indigenous representation on state boards and commissions.

Ensure that the Capital Park project in Trenton is constructed in a way the public wants so that it can become a destination for the community and for visitors to the area.

Create small-scale agricultural spaces in densely populated areas so local growers can work with the community to cultivate nutritious and culturally appropriate foods. Adjust policies on the use of state preservation funding to allow preservation of small urban agricultural lots.

Align state department policies and investment decisions around the New Jersey State Development and Redevelopment Plan, which coordinates planning activities and establishes statewide planning objectives in land use and housing, among several other topics.

Prioritize and incentivize the cleanup and reuse of brownfield sites in optimal warehousing locations. Consider a fee on warehouses located outside of these areas that is dedicated to programs for the reduction of air pollution in environmental justice areas.

Support safe, stable affordable housing for all New Jerseyans in appropriate sites, while ensuring that any development siting does not conflict with preservation or protection strategies for habitat, wildlife, and natural lands.

Require all warehouses to have solar into the grid.

Increase the preservation and stewardship of natural lands through the state’s Green Acres Program, focusing on restoring connectivity between large preserves, by using the Conservation Blueprint and the Connecting Habitat Across New Jersey efforts.

Support community efforts to reimagine Route 29 in Trenton to reconnect the community with the Delaware River.

Prohibit the location of warehouses, energy infrastructure - including renewable energy
infrastructure—and nonfarming-related commercialization on New Jersey’s prime agricultural soils to ensure farmlands remain viable and healthy for food production.

Spend additional program funding from Blue Acres to purchase flood-prone properties and return these lands to their natural state; adjust the program so that property owners can move faster through the process to sell their homes.

Expand access to waterfronts and tidal waters in urban communities that have historically been denied entry due to industrial development along the shoreline.

Increase the diversity of housing choices in walkable towns.

Support amendments to the Municipal Land Use Law to require every municipality to establish an Environmental Commission.