CBRA HAS A NEW VIDEO!!
Have you accessed your member benefits? Why not? Take a look at the document under Membership to see what is available to you. Call the CBRA Office to get your NAHB member and company pin number's so you can sign up.
2012 AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE
The Call for Entries booklet for the 2012 Awards of Excellence competition is NOW available. Watch for it in the center of the November/December and January issues of Onsite newsletter. It is also available on our website under Events. If you have questions about this competition, contact Sharon at the CBRA office - 973-887-2888 ext 302.
NEWS & VIEWS
Edited by Bob Hertzberg, CGB, CGP
POLITICS
Developer’s age waiver denied in East Windsor. Planning Board denies request to remove age restrictions from a planned housing development. Trenton Times Fulper farm family settles land zoning dispute. A settlement ends the zoning lawsuit that has cost the township almost three-quarters of a million dollars in legal fees. Star-Ledger Bridgewater to spend $4M to preserve farmland. S-L Assembly considers affordable housing reform bill. Long-awaited version of a bill to abolish the COAH and revamp affordable housing rules makes its debut. SHB Staff blamed for unapproved land-use review idea. The Christie administration blamed "aggressive" staff for launching a plan to privatize the state’s review of applications to develop protected wetlands and regulated flood plains. A "request for proposals," soliciting contractors to submit ideas appeared on Treasury's website last month. Star-Ledger
PROJECTS
Northeast modular builder offers "new normal" line Wayne OKs ‘big box’ zoning along Route 23. The Record Mount Olive development gets green light. The plan to turn Marveland horse farm into a 284-unit development in Mount Olive has cleared a procedural hurdle. Star-Ledger Phillipsburg, Alpha seek Highlands conformance. Two Warren County municipalities have submitted petitions to the Highlands Council for Plan Conformance and have asked for Highlands Center designations Express-Times
ECONOMICS Citibank September Construction Finance Analysis:
Just in case you missed the Case-Shiller Reports, here's the skinny: Case-Shiller Weak: Home Prices Down In 15 Of 20 Markets
LEGISLATION A-3196 DeAngelo, W.P. (D-14); Greenstein, L.R. (D-14) Allows corporation business tax credits as incentives for redevelopment of distressed shopping centers. Oct 18, 2010 – Reported by committee Oct 18, 2010 – 2nd reading in Assembly S-2374 Kean, S.T. (R-11); Ciesla, A.R. (R-10) Prohibits siting of industrial wind turbines within 2,000 feet of any residence or residentially zoned property
CURRENT EVENTS
Real Estate Industry Mourns Loss of David Houston This is a free, new National Newsletter about Commercial Real Estate. They also have a New Jersey Edition: check it out... http://www.bisnow.com/national_real_estate_news_story.php?p=10683
The Community Builders & Remodelers Association is a local professional trade organization, affiliated with the New Jersey Builders Association and the National Association of Home Builders, to promote and protectall segments of the residential building industry and its customers in Essex, Morris, Union, Somerset, Warren and Hunterdon counties. Our mission is to enhance its members’ ability to provide safe, affordable, quality housing to the citizens in New Jersey.
If you are not a member and would like to join, please contact Andrea Selinski at andreas@cbanj.org or
973-887-2888 x. 300
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BENEFITS OFFERED TO MEMBERS OF NAHB
2012 CBRA SPRING NAHB Education Course Schedule
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