PENNS NECK AREA EIS

Working GOALS & OBJECTIVES 
As agreed by the Penns Neck Area EIS Partners' Roundtable 
(last revised 4.10.02) 



GOAL:  Provide an open, inclusive, transparent and responsive EIS process.
Objectives:
* Create a process that embraces the principles of context sensitive design, fosters innovation and considers all ideas.
* Create a process that meets or exceeds Federal requirements.
* Ensure that important but tangential issues raised in the EIS process that cannot be addressed by the EIS process are directed to the appropriate entity for action.
* Create a process in which data are accessible and in which the models used are understandable and the assumptions are clearly defined.

GOAL:  Provide a proactive, comprehensive and ongoing public participation program.
Objectives:
* Provide a variety of forums to solicit broad public participation from a wide variety of perspectives.
* Ensure that opportunities for public input are widely communicated.
* Facilitate cross-communication between agencies, groups and individuals.

GOAL:  Protect and enhance the integrity of residential neighborhoods.
Objectives:
* Enhance pedestrian/bicycle amenities, access and safety to schools and other community facilities.
* Enhance vehicular access and safety to schools and other community facilities.
* Ensure that impacts are appropriate for the character of the existing roads and neighborhoods.
* Ensure that transportation (pedestrian/bicycle/transit/road) impacts do not disproportionately affect one neighborhood over another.
* Be aware of unintended consequences (e.g. diverted traffic).
* Minimize adverse impacts on the integrity of neighborhoods.

GOAL:  Maintain the viability of institutional and business communities
Objectives:
* Enhance pedestrian/bicycle amenities, access, and safety to institutions and businesses.
* Enhance vehicular access and safety to institutions and businesses.
* Minimize adverse effects on development of campuses.
* Be aware of unintended consequences (e.g. diverted traffic).

GOAL:  Protect and enhance the environment, including natural resources and open space.
Objectives:
* Preserve or improve water quality in the Millstone River watershed and the Delaware and Raritan Canal.
* Protect against flooding and encourage stormwater recharge, where appropriate.
* Protect against adverse noise impacts and meet federal and state air quality standards.
* Protect wetlands and avoid impacts to federal and state rare, threatened, and endangered species.
* Consider underlying geological conditions (i.e., bedrock, groundwater, etc.).
* Avoid habitat fragmentation.
* Protect and enhance access and use of recreational facilities.
* Protect open space as defined by Green Acres.
* Protect against adverse visual and light impacts.

GOAL:  Protect and enhance historic and archeological resources.
Objectives:
* Protect and enhance historic resources that have been:
- locally designated;
- identified as eligible for State or Federal Register;
- listed on State Register; or
- listed on Federal Register.
(See list in Appendix.)
* Avoid disturbances to archeological resources.



GOAL:  Recognize the interrelationships between land use and transportation.
Objectives:	
* Consider impact on land use induced by any transportation improvement.
* Ensure that improvements are sustainable.
* Maximize the compatibility of actions with the goals and objectives of municipal Master Plans and the NJ State Development and Redevelopment Plan.
GOAL: For all modes of transportation, improve access, mobility and safety and reduce congestion.
Objectives:
* Discourage through traffic on residential streets and direct non-local traffic to appropriate transportation facilities.
* Reduce the number of curb cuts along Route 1, and make use of collector/distributor lanes on Route 1, where consistent with other objectives.
* Discourage heavy truck through movements on local east-west roads.
* Improve the flow of traffic on Route 1.
* Improve the flow of east-west traffic on both sides of Route 1, and reduce intersection delays when crossing north-south highways.
* Ensure an equitable balance of traffic on various east-west routes on both sides of Route 1.
* Encourage alternate transportation choices for trips to employment sites, train stations and other destinations, in order to reduce auto dependence and single occupant vehicles (SOVs).
* Encourage regional use of transportation demand management (TDM) strategies.
* Provide better access and safety for pedestrians and bicyclists.
* Address the needs of emergency response personnel and vehicles.
* Provide effective transportation options for underserved populations.
* Reduce travel delay and rate of growth in congestion throughout the primary study area, as measured by vehicle miles traveled (VMT), vehicle hours traveled (VHT), volume/capacity ratio (v/c), and level of service (LOS).
PENNS NECK AREA EIS
Working GOALS & OBJECTIVES 
As agreed by the Penns Neck Area EIS Partner's Roundtable 
(last revised 4-10-02)


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