2549-18 Exhibit to Ordinance Adopting Redevelopment Plan for Essex Green and Executive Drive Properties.pdf

300 EXECUTIVE DRIVE REDEVELOPMENT PLAN | Township of West Orange, Essex County, New Jersey 6. Protect the character of existing stable communities. This Plan meets the following “Garden State Values” of the State Strategic Plan: This Plan meets stated goals 1, 3, 4, and 5 for Planning Area 1.  Prioritize Redevelopment, infill, and existing infrastructure  The redevelopment project promotes the reuse and  Increase Job and Business Opportunities in Priority revitalization of a parcel whose current improvements Growth Investment Areas are outdated.  Create high-quality, livable places  The redevelopment of a previously disturbed and developed site is consistent with concept of promoting Essex County Plans growth in compact forms. The only recent county-wide planning document adopted by  The suburban office park model has declined in viability; Essex County is the 2013 Comprehensive Transportation Plan. this plan seeks to stabilize the Area’s economic future. The County also has a Park, Recreation, and Open Space  Suburban office parks are a symbol of sprawling Master Plan that dates to 2003. development patterns. This Plan seeks to reimagine a Essex County Comprehensive Transportation Plan (2013) facility that was built during a period of suburban The County Comprehensive Transportation Plan’s vision is to expansion and is currently outdated. “Develop a safe coordinated and integrated multimodal State Strategic Plan transportation system that provides accessibility for all users The final draft of the State Strategic Plan was

rated multimodal State Strategic Plan transportation system that provides accessibility for all users The final draft of the State Strategic Plan was released in 2012. while promoting connectivity, economic vitality and While the State Strategic Plan has not been officially adopted, productivity, our communities’ livability, and our ecosystem’s and the SDRP is still the official State Plan, it is still prudent to viability.” review the relationship between this Plan and the State  The West Orange Jitney System, which stops at Essex Strategic Plan Draft. This Plan is consistent with the stated goals Green adjacent to the Redevelopment Area, is of the State Strategic Plan. This Plan exemplifies the guiding identified in the Transportation Plan as a link to the principle of “Spatial Efficiency”, where new development is Orange and South Orange Train Stations, which offer encouraged to be located in areas where infrastructure is Midtown-Direct train service. already in place to support growth. 22 | July 2018 HEYER, GRUEL & ASSOCIATES