The full speech is available online . Sprawl eats up our open space. It creates traffic jams that boggle the mind and pollute the air.
Sprawl can make one feel downright claustrophobic about our future.
Fortunately, New Jersey already has a strategy to deal with these problems. These are goals we all want for New Jersey. In the process, they strain not only their backs but also the services needed to support this development. Today, I am asking the property tax commission I appointed to recommend how communities can avoid a chase they can't win. For instance, let's give towns a guidebook to determine the true costs and benefits of a developer's proposal.