As an active member of the Shore Builders of Central New Jersey, a trade association serving all building related industries throughout the central New Jersey region, Gravatt Consulting Group would like you to consider joining us in support of the effort the Shore Builders and the New Jersey Builders Association opposition to recently proposed NJDEP regulations that would adversely impact our industry.
For the past decade New Jersey’s policymakers have been telling residents of New Jersey and New Jersey’s new home builders that the redevelopment of our older metropolitan areas, which contain a substantial number of contaminated Brownfield sites, is the key to New Jersey’s economic future. However, suddenly this week word has come that the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection has proposed new regulations that would effectively stop the cleanup of Brownfields.
In 1998, New Jersey’s State Legislature adopted the Brownfield and Contaminated Site Remediation Act to promote the revitalization of our metropolitan areas. The goal of the Act was to cleanup and return Brownfields to productive uses through private initiative and investment. However, the NJDEP’s proposal is seemingly inconsistent with these goals. Instead of encouraging more cleanups, it will effectively put a stop to them.
Please consider supporting the efforts of the New Jersey Builders Association to oppose the NJDEP proposed regulations by clicking here and letting the members of your legislative district know how you feel and how these rulings will impact New Jersey’s home building industry and the opportunity for many New Jersey families to own their own piece of the American Dream.
Your support will inform your legislators of the harmful efforts the NJDEP's proposed regulations and request that your legislator inform you of their position on this important issue. This is a legislative election year and political leaders in Trenton will certainly weigh the massive response to this issue, provided that the wide and varied members of New Jersey’s land development industry do their part by banning together in an effort to voice our opinions against the DEP’s proposals.
