APA New Jersey was pleased to host its annual awards program on December 15th to honor this year's Great Places in New Jersey designees and Planning Excellence Awards recipients.

1. Planning
Excellence
Awards
New Jersey
Great Places
Designees
+
2022

2. December 15, 2022
Awardees, Colleagues, and Guests,
On behalf of the New Jersey Chapter of the American Planning Association,
thank you for joining us tonight as we take time to reflect on the past year and
celebrate the extraordinary accomplishments of our honorees.
This is our first in-person awards reception in three years, and so much has
changed, but we have real opportunities before us.
The global health pandemic hammered home the critical role of planning in
keeping our communities safe and healthy. Climate change has been and
continues to affect our residents' everyday lives, and its impacts are rapidly
increasing. A long overdue racial reckoning is also underway, amplifying the
linkage of urban planning and structural inequality.
Our celebration tonight is special because our honorees have been bold,
deliberate, and intentional in the face of these challenges. They are leaders and
champions in advancing affordable housing, preserving open spaces, engaging
new voices, inspiring our youth, facilitating partnerships, leveraging technology,
building resilience, and the list goes on...
Tonight, we raise a glass to the individuals who demonstrate what’s possible.
Thank you again to all our honorees, guests, generous sponsors, and awards
jury for making tonight possible. Enjoy your time together and be the energy
you want to attract.
Always in partnership,
Charles W. Latini, Jr. Sheena Collum
President Executive Director

3. Great Places
Designees
What Makes a Great Place?
Great Places in New Jersey represent the gold
standard of exemplary character, quality and
planning. These places have a true sense of
place, cultural and historical interest, community
involvement and a vision for tomorrow.
New Jersey’s great downtowns, public spaces,
streets, and neighborhoods are defined by many
criteria, including architectural features, accessibility,
functionality, and community activity.
2022

4. GREAT
DOWNTOWN
Program grant
from the New
Jersey Department of
Community Affairs for the South
End District. The NPP funds will enable
the BID to focus on creative placemaking and a sustainable arts and
cultural district.
Flemington is a progressive and growing town that embraces
responsible growth and is ready to support new investments, including
the transformation of the Union Hotel featuring the preservation of the
hotel’s historic façade and a new 85-room facility, plus 206 apartments
and two restaurants with liquor licenses.
Additionally, the Liberty Village Project is another promise of significant
growth with plans to transform the former outlet mall, which has run
its course, into a new tree-lined neighborhood. This mix of multi-family
residential and townhouses will accommodate many incomes and
household sizes and add to the vibrancy and walkability of surrounding
commercial areas, including foot traffic to the downtown.
Historic Flemington Borough, Hunterdon County’s beautiful county seat,
offers an exciting crossroads for commerce, agriculture, and the arts, where
over 65% of the borough is on the National Register of Historic Places. It has
grown as a regional destination with more than 400 businesses, including
50 restaurants, boutiques, a busy craft brewery, a year-round Saturday
Farmer’s Market, art galleries, and over 90 health, wellness, and retail
businesses. In addition, the downtown boasts several antique shops and
bookstores and is a boutique shoppers’ dream, with fabulous finds and
friendly business owners. Entrepreneurs under the age of 30 are the owners
and operators of many recently opened businesses. The borough attributes
this trend to the affordable nature of available retail and a widely shared
desire to invest in the community.
The Flemington Community Partnership (FCP) is the borough’s Business
Improvement District (BID) with a mission of fostering a thriving business
community. Most recently, the FCP received a Neighborhood Preservation
Historic
Flemington

5. As visitors roam the park, they can encounter informational signs that
provide educational information about the restoration of the site,
the ecological life on site, and the buildings seen when viewing the
Philadelphia skyline. A series of paved trails connect throughout the
park allowing visitors to bike, run, walk, and take advantage of various
exercise stations. Other unique features of the park include a fishing
plaza, kayak launch, shoreline access, a children’s playground, a grass
amphitheater, and plenty of observation areas. Ongoing community
activity is always happening in the park, including the community
garden, a New-View art installation site, photo tours, and bike tours.
Transforming the park not only rid the neighborhood of an eyesore but
ultimately helped with other issues, such as illegal dumping, flooding,
and crime in the Cramer Hill neighborhood, while helping the more
significant effort to clean the Delaware River. Ultimately, Cramer Hill
Waterfront Park exemplifies the importance of equitable and inclusive
access to the city’s most incredible natural asset – its waterways.
This generational project would not have been possible without the
nearly twenty-year commitment from all levels of government to these
residents. It is a true example of a public and private partnership that
involves authentic community outreach and environmental justice at
its core.
What was once a landfill from the 1930s-1970s is now a stunning 62-acre
park. Cramer Hill Waterfront Park in Cramer Hill, Camden, offers a variety of
attractions and amenities for people of all ages. Located on the confounds
of the Delaware and Cooper Rivers, the waterfront park is an ecological
hotspot offering residents access to the waterfront for the first time in
nearly a century. Wildlife thrives throughout the park, with over 375,000
trees installed throughout the park, along with bald eagle perch poles and
basking turtle docks.
Cramer Hill
Waterfront Park
GREAT
PUBLIC SPACE

6. The 145-plot
Community
Garden at South Branch
is a prime example of how the
preservation of public lands can offer
people the chance to grow their produce and flowers
and provides opportunities for education, gardening, and picnicking
within a bountiful and resilient ecosystem. Partnering with City Green,
gardeners donate weekly to the local food pantry in Mt. Olive.
The South Branch Preserve has become a hub for outdoor community
activities. In 2020, The Conservancy installed a horseshoe pit and land
art station where visitors can make art from native materials found at
the Preserve. Picnic benches have also been installed as well as a 1.5-
mile hiking trail.
For their efforts, The Land Conservancy received an Environmental
Quality Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for this
restoration work, marking the first time a housing subdivision had
been restored to its native habitat in New Jersey.
In 2010, The Land Conservancy of New Jersey began working with six
partners to acquire the headwaters of the South Branch of the Raritan River
in Mount Olive Township, Morris County. This area is critical as it provides
clean drinking water to 1.5 million New Jersey residents. When none of the
partners expressed an interest in owning and managing the properties, The
Land Conservancy agreed to take title to the property and named it the
South Branch Preserve, which features 400 acres today.
Highlights include installing a deer fence around 37 acres and planting
more than 7,000 native trees, restoration to native wildflower meadows
to provide habitat to declining pollinator species such as the Monarch
Butterfly, and converting land into an organic farm which features a
partnership with City Green, a nonprofit that offers equitable access to
healthy food while promoting environmental stewardship and ecologically
sustainable communities.
South Branch
Preserve
GREAT
PUBLIC SPACE

7. amusement rides, video arcades, games of chance, and a myriad
of boardwalk gastronomic specialties from saltwater taffy, ice
cream, and sweets to pizza, sausage sandwiches, and seafood. The
boardwalk is also home to Jenkinson’s Aquarium, which is dedicated
to public education on all aspects of marine life and conservation and
rehabilitation, mainly focusing on local species.
The boardwalk is host to many events throughout the year, such as
the nation’s fourth largest “Making Strides of Point Pleasant Beach”
breast cancer awareness walk, the Alzheimer’s Walk, and, this past
April, “Point Beach Cares: A Concert for Ukraine” which raised roughly
$200,000 for Ukrainian aid. Local organizations use the boardwalk for
fundraising and hosting photo ops or press conferences; local schools
often use the boardwalk as a class trip destination, and the boardwalk
is where many local kids earn their first paycheck.
Like the people who have grown up with the boardwalk, it is a resilient
place. It has bounced back from hurricanes, fires, and other disasters.
Initially surfaced with wood planks, the boardwalk was replaced by
a composite material that now offers an even, level walking surface
to accommodate all levels of mobility. The boardwalk allows all
people access to the beautiful, wide beaches of Point Pleasant Beach,
including twelve ADA-accessible public entrances to residents, visitors,
and guests.
The Point Pleasant Beach Boardwalk, or “the boardwalk” as it is known
to locals, has been a historic attraction for Point Pleasant Beach for
generations. As all great public places do, it has evolved over time to
respond to the needs of the population it serves and the environment in
which it exists.
Today, the current one-mile-long boardwalk is well-known for its Jersey
Shore nightlife and attractions: bars, dance clubs, live music, restaurants,
Point Pleasant
Beach Boardwalk
GREAT
PUBLIC SPACE

8. Planning
Excellence
Awards
Honoring planning initiatives,
built projects, individuals and
organizations that are at the
forefront of planning and
design in New Jersey.
Budd Chavooshian Award for Outstanding
Professional Planner
To a professional planner for sustained contributions to the profession through
distinguished practice, teaching, or writing.
Distinguished Civic Leadership Award
To an elected official or citizen planning advocate who has advanced sound
planning in the public arena.
Distinguished Emerging Planner Award
To a professional planner, 35 years or younger, who has demonstrated
extraordinary commitment to leadership, professional development, and the
advancement of the field of planning in New Jersey.
James W. Hughes Applied Research Award
To an individual or organization whose applied research has affected change in
New Jersey, as the substantive basis for legislative, regulatory, or policy change,
or as the driver of a shift in a fundamental approach to planning.
Stuart Meck Distinguished Service Award
To an APA New Jersey member who has advanced the mission of the Chapter
by consistently and freely giving of themselves to the Executive Committee or
Chapter initiatives.
Outstanding Plan Award
To a plan of unusually high merit.
Outstanding Implementation Award
To a specific planning project or initiative of unusually high merit for which
there are demonstrated “on-the-ground” results and success stories that are
supported by documented physical or social change.
Outstanding Community Engagement and
Education Award
To a planning project or initiative that has involved or resulted in significant
advancement of community comprehension of planning issues or outcomes.
Outstanding Student Project Award
To outstanding class projects or papers by a student or group of students that
contribute to advances in the field of planning.
2022

9. A champion and change-maker in Somerset County for over two decades,
Walter Lane currently serves as the Director of the Office of Planning, Policy,
and Economic Development, where he has led and managed numerous
projects and initiatives that have demonstrated his unwavering belief in the
value that county planning can provide such as spearheading the award-
winning “Supporting Priority Investment” in Somerset County initiative
which allowed the County to work with every municipality to strategically
align planning and investment decisions across all levels of government.
Under his leadership, Somerset County was the first county in New Jersey
to be designated as an “Age Friendly County” by the American Association
of Retired Persons and the World Health Organization, and most recently,
developed a comprehensive Somerset County Preservation Plan, which is
the first of its kind in New Jersey coordinating all aspects of preservation
programs including open space, farmland and historic. Since 2014, Mr.
Lane’s efforts have successfully preserved nearly 1,000 acres of open
space, preserved over 820 acres of farmland, and provided over $7.8 million
in funding for historic preservation projects.
During his tenure as President of the New Jersey County Planners
Association, the organization showcased the excellent work county
planning departments provide to the residents of New Jersey. He also
initiated a task force during the height of the pandemic to develop a long-
range recovery plan entitled “Creating a Healthier, Prosperous and More
Equitable Future for All New Jersey’s Residents.”
Walter C. Lane, AICP, PP
In 2019, Mia Sacks ran for office on a “Proactive Planning for Princeton”
platform. During her first term, she launched a complete overhaul of
Princeton’s outdated Master Plan and spearheaded the passage of New
Jersey’s first Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) Ordinance, which became a
model for towns around the state.
As Chair of Princeton Council’s Affordable Housing, Planning and
Redevelopment Committee, Sacks spent the last three years overseeing
the implementation of the town’s Affordable Housing Settlement that will
bring more than 700 new units of net zero ready housing to Princeton – all
located close to transit, shopping, employment, civic and recreational
spaces. A newly created redevelopment zone encompassing two
housing developments, and a long-declining shopping center, will bring
much-needed economic revitalization to the entire area. Another newly
created redevelopment area will replace an abandoned office complex
with a housing mix that includes 30% affordable units for seniors and
developmentally disabled adults.
Councilwoman Sacks also led the creation of affordable housing overlay
zones in the center of Princeton that preserves the streetscape and existing
development pattern of this historic corridor defined by Nassau Street.
As an elected official, Sacks has seen first-hand the tangible ways
that planning tools impact all areas of people’s lives and has become
passionately involved in using those tools to strengthen her community
more equitably. Recently elected to a second term, Sacks looks forward
to continuing her work in planning a sustainable, smart growth-oriented
future for Princeton.
The Honorable Mia Sacks
Distinguished
Civic Leadership
Award
Budd Chavooshian
Award for
Outstanding
Professional
Planner

10. James W. Hughes
Applied Research
Award
Shortly after graduating from Rutgers University’s Edward J. Bloustein
School of Planning and Public Policy with a master’s degree in City and
Regional Planning in 2015, Ms. Patel went to work as a Senior Planner with
the Jersey City Division of Planning, reviewing site plan applications and
redevelopment plans. She was the representative for the City on NJTPA’s
Regional Advisory Committee and would administrate transportation
grants for the city. She soon became the city’s designated Transportation
Planner taking the lead on transportation planning initiatives, including a
Bike Master Plan, School Travel Plan, a City-Wide Bicycle Master Plan, and
forming the Jersey City Vision Zero Task Force.
Successfully implementing innovative solutions to urban planning
problems is her specialty. Ms. Patel is to thank for miles of city streets
being re-designed to accommodate all users safely. Her demonstration
project along Bergen Avenue – a critical connection to Journal Square—
turned into a full road diet that protects pedestrians and cyclists alike.
Grand Street, an important connector for residents of various residential
neighborhoods to reach the Downtown commercial district, was a
significant undertaking that was years in the making with multiple phases
and is now almost complete.
Her career path speaks to her effectiveness. Today, she oversees the
Department of Infrastructure, which encompasses the Divisions of
Architecture, Engineering, Traffic Engineering, Transportation Planning,
and Sustainability, and the Office of Innovation. After just eight short years,
she manages hundreds of City employees and over $100 million in capital
improvement projects.
Barkha R. Patel, AICP
Distinguished
Emerging Planner
Award
A thought leader for real estate market analysis for over four decades, Jeffrey
currently serves as the Chief Economist of Otteau Group, Inc. and as Managing
Broker for Hudson Atlantic Realty Advisors. Jeffrey is also the editor of a real
estate information service focused on the Tri-State Area, which has thousands
of subscribers, including real estate professionals interested in market
dynamics and commercial banks requiring risk management guidance. Under
his leadership, Otteau Group and Hudson Atlantic have become the most
prominent real estate advisory firms in New Jersey.
Jeffrey’s work focuses on shaping planning and development at the
intersection of economic, demographic, and market dynamics. His services
are utilized by private and public sector clients seeking forward guidance
in planning sustainable development, which is both beneficial to local
communities and economically viable. He has been consistently recognized
for his industry leadership, including NJBIZ in its annual ranking of The Most
Influential in Real Estate and ROI NJ as a Top-10 Real Estate Professional. He
is frequently quoted in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal and has
made television appearances on NBC, CNBC, Bloomberg, and Fox 5 News.
Jeffrey is a Senior Accredited Member of the American Society of Appraisers
(ASA) and holds the State Certified General Real Estate Appraiser certification
in multiple states. Jeffrey has served on the Appraisal Standards Advisory
Council of the Appraisal Foundation in Washington, D.C., in consulting on its
agenda of projects and major technical issues. He is a past Chairman of the
Employee Relocation Council’s Appraisal Standards Council, which inducted
him into their distinguished Hall of Leaders.
Jeffrey has been qualified as an expert in State and Federal Court, including
Judge Jacobsen’s Fair-Share methodology trial in Mercer County Superior
Court. He has also appeared at hundreds of municipal and county
proceedings on land use matters, authored several market analysis texts, and
lectured throughout North America.
Jeffrey G. Otteau, ASA, IFA, SCGREA

11. Deborah Schulze oversees the Summer City Planning Institute, launched in
2017. It introduces students from urban areas to the city planning process
and provides them with the tools to critically evaluate challenges and
work with government officials to create plans for making positive changes
in their communities. As a certified teacher and planner, Ms. Schulze
authored the curriculum and implementation guide, which was the
recipient of a national grant to provide a framework to other APA chapters
throughout the country.
Since the program’s inception, the City Planning Institute has served
over 1000 students throughout New Jersey. The first program was run
for a single class in Newark in its after-school program, where students
were asked to re-envision a blighted property and redesign it. Today, the
program has grown into a full-scale summer institute where students
are paid to do city planning work in partnership with municipalities and
community organizations. Projects have included graffiti art inventories,
the creation of restaurant walking guides for downtowns, neighborhood-
wide property assessments, community engagement workshops, park
designs, safe walking route streetscapes, and concept designs for new
developments.
Ms. Schulze’s students have delivered more than 30 proposals and
presentations to city officials and stakeholders over the years, some
making their way to resolution and implementation. APA New Jersey
is pleased to be a partner in these efforts and extends its deepest
appreciation to Ms. Schulze for her unmatched dedication to the next
generation of leaders.
Newark360: Shaping Our City Together, the citywide master plan, was
adopted by the Newark Central Planning Board on September 26, 2022.
This plan responds to the voices and concerns of Newarkers by creating a
framework to guide the city’s development over the next decade, focusing
on mitigating the city’s historical and present-day inequities to create a
healthier, more equitable, and resilient Newark.
In an increasingly unaffordable region with rising housing costs and uneven
job access, Newarkers wanted to ensure this growth does not add to
existing and historic racial inequities. The plan was a timely opportunity
to create a renewed citywide vision in the wake of a pandemic and a racial
reckoning.
Throughout the master planning process, the Newark360 team spent
12 months in 2021-22 talking to Newarkers from all neighborhoods and
all walks of life, ensuring this plan meets our people where they are and
is shaped by their voices. The Newark360 Master Plan guides Newark’s
physical development and policy framework, embedding Mayor Ras J.
Baraka’s core values of health, equity, and resilience into the city’s physical
environment.
The plan’s signature recommendations increase density allowances along
the city’s main commercial corridors, removes parking minimums, explores
Accessory Dwelling Units for single-family neighborhoods, and celebrates
the city’s arts, culture, and entertainment. The plan also recommends
that the City establish a full climate resiliency plan for the environmentally
vulnerable East Ward and a citywide parks system plan to ensure equitable
access to parks and open spaces for all.
Visit: newark360.org
Outstanding
Plan
Award
Deborah Schulze
Stuart Meck
Distinguished
Service Award
Newark360: Shaping Our City Together

12. Camden’s Waterfront South is a federal and state historic district
located in the southwestern part of the City of Camden along the
banks of the Delaware River. Rowan University’s Community Planning +
Visualization Lab partnered with the Camden County Municipal Utilities
Authority (CCMUA), Heart of Camden, and Camden Fireworks to create a
neighborhood-wide green infrastructure plan to reduce stormwater runoff/
flooding and improve the condition of existing parks and green spaces.
Community engagement and feedback were critical in this planning
process to obtain information on flood-prone areas, receive initial input
on proposed GIS projects, understand the project’s social impact, and
respond to the overall concerns of community members. Traditionally,
a bottom-up planning approach is rare for plans focusing on technical
problems like stormwater management, mainly focused on technical/
engineering solutions, and community inputs are often used as tokenism.
This project deliberately avoided that practice and blended traditional
and experimental community engagement methods, including a historical
reflection on environmental issues in the form of an oral history project
featured in a podcast and an exhibition of photo collages at an art gallery.
Overall, the project showcases the excellence of thought, analysis,
writing, and graphics and is based on sound planning principles.
Outputs from each of the ten community engagement activities were
systematically cataloged and presented in the plan. The team explained
how ideas and suggestions were generated through these activities in
the forms of text, tables, and charts and eventually embedded in the final
recommendations.
Visit: planviz.org/engagement
Greening Camden Waterfront South
What originated as the Somerville Station Area & Landfill Vision Plan
and developed into the Borough of Somerville Station Area and Landfill
Redevelopment Plan, updated in June 2017, is becoming a reality
in Somerville. With construction on Phase 1 of the redevelopment
underway, Somerville is transforming from a small downtown to a regional
destination - with a small-town feel.
Four new plan areas were delineated in the 2017 Redevelopment Plan,
including the Hub, the Heights, Downtown Gateway, and Green Seam. Each
plan area differs in relation to the uses, densities, and activities envisioned.
Due to the large size of the Redevelopment Area, the development would
occur in phases.
Somerville Station provides a diversity of housing types and transportation
options that can be expanded to nearby Route 206, Main Street Somerville,
and points west and east via the NJ Transit Raritan Valley Line. Units are
both for sale and rental and exhibit flexible live/work terraces. Parking is
also incorporated into the design of the redevelopment project as either
structured parking, “tuck-under” parking, or limited surface parking.
“The Hub” is well underway, with approximately 60 of the Phase I units
being either sold or under contract, and they are selling much faster than
expected. Phase I also incorporated the Borough’s “Green Seam” project,
reclaiming the historic landfill as a large constructed-wetland system that
will act as stormwater management for the site and recreation for residents
and visitors.
Visit: somervillenj.org/filestorage/4064/5334/Landfill_RD_Plan_June2017.pdf
Borough of Somerville Station Area and
Landfill Redevelopment Plan
Outstanding
Implementation
Award
Outstanding
Community
Engagement and
Education Award

13. During the 2022 urban planning studio, twelve Rutgers University graduate
students working on degrees in City and Regional Planning, Landscape
Architecture, and Public Informatics worked with Asbury Park and New
Jersey’s Parking & Transportation Division, to explore micromobility and
active transportation options and infrastructure as ways to encourage
expanded use of and enhanced safety of non-motorist travel. With input
and approval from the City of Asbury Park council and staff, the Studio
Team developed a pop-up bike and scooter lane demonstration project
installed from April 1st to April 25th, 2022.
The originality of this project lies in the multiple methods used to assess
the safety of the bicycle lane and in the creative collaboration across
various disciplines. Namely, the students used a combination of traditional
surveys and cutting-edge technology to explore the safety of the pop-up
bicycle lane by leveraging biometric sensors such as eye-tracking glasses
and Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) sensors to gauge the stress levels and
attentiveness of users. Additionally, the students tested the virtual reality
equipment at the Rutgers Engineering Virtual Reality Lab and had first-
hand experience riding an e-scooter on a 3-D model of the project area.
As a final product, the students created an ArcGIS StoryMap to showcase
the graphical elements of the project. The StoryMap includes photos,
videos, maps, and a walk through the study area showing the plans for bike
lane implementation. The demonstration project proved popular, with
about 90% of surveyed respondents supporting making the bike lanes
permanent.
Visit: bloustein.rutgers.edu/micromobility/research-projects
Smart and Connected: Micromobility
Demonstration Project in Asbury Park
Oustanding
Student Project
Award
SPONSORS

14. Extending our warmest
congratulations to all
recipients of the 2022
APA-NJ Planning
Excellence Awards
We are especially thankful for the
jury’s hard work and deliberations,
and the recognition received
by our own dedicated faculty,
amazing community partners
and inspiring students for
Outstanding Community
Engagement and Education in
the City of Camden, New Jersey.
Plan your future, begin today.
go.rowan.edu/planning
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15. NEWARK360
CONGRATULATIONS
And All of the Planning Excellence
& Great Places in NJ Honorees
2022 OUTSTANDING
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PLAN AWARD
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16. en Brownstone Company - 42 Years of Re-Development Expertise
en Road . Bedminster . NJ . 07921 . (201)-988-1428 . www.HBrownstone.com
red Trade Name of West Bank Realty Inc.- A Licensed NJ Real Estate Broker Established in 1986
George T. Vallone – Broker of Record
allone - Redeveloper Of The Liberty Village Outlet Mall
Congratulates the
oosing Downtown Historic Flemington as One of Four
Great Places in New Jersey
ongrats to the Leaders that made it happen!
ouncil President Jeremy Long, Councilwoman Jessica Hand, Council
er, Councilman Malik Johnston, Councilwoman Elizabeth Rosetti
George T. Vallone
Redeveloper of the
Liberty Village Outlet Mall
Proudly Congratulates
Historic Flemington
on being designated a
GREAT DOWNTOWN
IN NEW JERSEY
Mayor Betsy Driver, Council President Jeremy Long,
Councilwoman Jessica Hand, Councilman Tony Parker,
Councilman Malik Johnston & Councilwoman Elizabeth Rosetti
The Hoboken Brownstone Company
42 Years of Redevelopment Expertise
68 Deer Haven Road, Bedminster, NJ 07921 | 201-988-1428
www.HBrownstone.com
HRC is a Registered Trade Name of West Bank Realty, Inc.
A Licensed NJ Real Estate Broker Established in 1986
Congratulations
Barkha Patel
2022 Distinguished
Emerging Planner
Recipient

17. CONGRATULATIONS
winncompanies.com
to Councilmember Mia Sacks on
receiving the 2022 Distinguished
Civic Leadership Award from
the New Jersey Chapter of the
American Planning Association.
W
alter C. Lane, PP/AICP
Outstanding Professional Planner Award
Borough of Somerville
Outstanding Implementation Award
&
congratulate
The Somerset County
Board of Commissioners and
County Administrator Colleen Mahr
Visit us at
SoCoNJ.gov
Shanel Y. Robinson
Commissioner Director
Melonie Marano
Commissioner Deputy Director
Paul Drake
Commissioner
Sara Sooy
Commissioner
Douglas Singleterry
Commissioner

18. Thank you to every Newarker who spoke up
to make our city's Master Plan a success!
And thank you to the New Jersey Chapter of the
American Planning Association for awarding
“2022OUTSTANDINGPLANAWARD”
Mayor Ras J. Baraka
VISIT: WWW.NEWARK360.ORG

19. Congratulations
DEBORAH SCHULZE
2022 Stuart Meck
Distinguished Service Award
Accelerating success.
2022 APANJ Great
Places in NJ Awards
Proud to support the
Congratulations to Mayor Paul Kanitra & the Borough
of Point Pleasant Beach on receiving APANJ’S Great
Places in NJ Award for Point Pleasant Beach Boardwalk
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20. Louis Joyce, AICP, PP
Southern Shore Area Representative
Michèle S. Delisfort, AICP, PP
Redevelopment Committee Chair
James Hess, AICP, PP
Transportation Committee Chair
Creigh Rahenkamp, PP
Housing Committee Chair
Carlos Rodrigues, FAICP, PP, CNU
Urban Design Committee Chair
Jennifer Feltis Cortese, AICP
Hazard Mitigation Committee Co-Chair
Bob Kull, AICP, PP
Hazard Mitigation Committee Co-Chair
Maura Fennessy
At-Large Member
Charles Heydt, AICP, PP
At-Large Member
David Listokin, AICP, PP
Faculty Liaison (Bloustein)
Kevin Keenan, Ph.D., AICP
Faculty Liaison (Rowan)
Kyrillos Girgis
Student Representative
Charles W. Latini, Jr., AICP, PP
President
Thomas G. Dallessio, AICP, PP, CPM, FRSA
Vice President of Policy
Angela Knowles, AICP, PP
Vice President of Conference Services
Tom Schulze, AICP, PP
Community Planning Assistance Program
Cailean Kok, AICP, PP
Professional Development Officer
(Cont. Ed)
John Barree, AICP, PP
Professional Development Officer
(Exam Prep)
Mirah Becker, AICP, PP
Secretary
Jeffrey Wilkerson, AICP, PP
Treasurer
Jessica Giorgianni, AICP, PP
Northeast Area Representative
Eric K. Snyder, AICP, PP
Northwest Area Representative
Mike Manzella, AICP, PP
Central Area Representative
Lorissa Luciani, AICP, PP
Southern Area Representative
2022 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
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Executive Director
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