Governor Parris Glendening gave a presentation on climate change, inequity, and the role of redevelopment at the New Jersey Future Redevelopment Forum on March 6, 2020. He discussed how climate change and demographic shifts are threatening communities and exacerbating inequities, and how redevelopment can help address these challenges by creating more walkable, transit-oriented, and resilient places that meet the needs of changing demographics. Redevelopment, smart growth, and transit-oriented development were presented as ways to confront these threats and build more equitable and sustainable communities.

1. Climate Change & Inequity:
Today’s Great Threats and the
Role of Redevelopment
Governor Parris Glendening
New Jersey Future Redevelopment Forum
March 6, 2020

2. Florida Everglades

3. Hyattsville

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Houses that share a backyard – 7 miles away via roads

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Chapel Hill, NC

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Juneau, AK

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Boomers
Millennials
Demographic Changes

9. 1960 2000 2012 2025
Households with
children
48% 33% 31% 28%
Households
without children
52% 67% 68% 72%
Single households 13% 26% 27.8% 28%
Adapted from Martha Farnsworth Riche, How Changes in the Nation’s Age and
Household Structure Will Reshape Housing Demand in the 21st Century, HUD, 2003.
Changing demographics:
decline in households with children

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Research Triangle Park

11. SmartGrowthAmerica.org/Core-Values

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Amazon HQ2

13. Source: Pew Research Center
analysis of the 2000 decennial
census and 2014 American
Community Survey
Equity

14. NEW ORLEANS, LA SOUTHEAST TEXAS
Hurricane Katrina, 2011 | Hurricane Harvey, 2017

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Flooding in Annapolis

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New Bus Rapid Transit | San Jose, CA

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Climate Change Perception

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Land use
choices

19. Sense of Place

20. Image: City of South Bend by Smart Growth America
Complete Streets in South Bend, IN

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Transit in Baltimore

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Sprawl does not pay

23. Build out Scenarios for Macon-Bibb, GA
Fiscal Implications

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26. Image via BoiseCentre.com
Boise, ID

27. Image via ASLA/ZGF Architects LLP
Portland, OR

28. Image by the Congress for New Urbanism
Silver Spring, MD

29. Thank You