Reapportionment, enactment of a broad-based tax, and creation of state departments of transportation and community affairs all point to New Jersey’s determination to equip itself with the tools needed to cope with its problems as the nation’s most urban state. Yet there is a tradition of weak state government, a sense of separation from the rest of the metropolitan region and a large backlog of unfulfilled needs to be overcome.
This Regional Plan News sets out some of the issues concerning New Jersey development that face the State. Papers discussed by civic, business, educational and labor leaders of the State at the third New Jersey Regional Conference in Newark, April 13, 1966, and the work of the five-year-old New Jersey Committee of Regional Plan Association serve to bring these issues into focus.
