Planning | Municipal Master Plans
Gloucester Township, NJ
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Highlights
• Township master plan
• Streetscape improvements
• "Pocket" park
• Facade renovations
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One of the largest municipalities in the state, Gloucester Township
with 65,000 people is a quintessential post-World War II suburb outside
of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in southern New Jersey. The Township
discovered that locations for large community parks were dwindling as
were places for business development. Further, the Township's Blackwood
West area -- its small traditional commercial center -- had turned a
corner but still lacked consumer appeal. The Gloucester Planning Board
also needed guidance on the various forms of age-restricted housing and
appropriate locations for these uses. Clarke Caton Hintz's analysis of
the land use pattern also determined that there were many sites for
middle income housing but that the Township had few, if any, places for
executive housing. These issues were among many others that were
addressed in a master plan for the development and redevelopment of the
Township that subsequently led to a complete rewriting of its land
development regulations and the creation of a redevelopment plan for
Blackwood West.
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