Regional Plan Association - New Jersey Office

	New Jersey Office 179 Nassau Street 2nd Floor Princeton, NJ 08542 609-228-7080 fax: 609-228-7079				RPA's New Jersey Office offers recommendations and undertakes specific projects to advance land use planning, economic development, transportation investments and environmental conservation. RPA/New Jersey encompasses the following counties: Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Ocean, Passaic, Somerset, Sussex, Union and Warren. RPA/NJ's mission is to research issues of regional and statewide significance, to promote proposals and advocate solutions to these issues, and to implement action projects and policy initiatives across political boundaries that will lead to positive change within New Jersey and throughout the tri-state region. RPA/NJ is currently engaged in a number of projects, including the New Jersey Mayors' Institute on Community Design, the Highlands, and the Civic Alliance to Rebuild Downtown New York. Mayors' Institute Highlands ARC Property Tax Reform Click here to see the list of the NJ Committee Members


			Carlos Macedo Rodrigues, AICP, PP Vice President and New Jersey Director

			Before joining RPA as its Vice President and New Jersey Director, Carlos Rodrigues was the Director of Planning for the Princeton office of Looney Ricks Kiss Architects, where he manages a large portfolio of private real estate development and redevelopment work, public sector and non-profit community development clients. Previously, he spent 10 years with New Jersey State Government -- as Acting Director and Manager of Plan Implementation for the New Jersey Office of Smart Growth -- where he was responsible for physical planning and design issues statewide. An architect and a planner, Carlos has led a multi-prong effort to elevate the role of physical planning and design in the State through public presentations, educational initiatives (such as the NJ Mayors Institute on Community Design), demonstration projects and both print and virtual publications, such as the award winning Designing New Jersey and Employment and Community. In that role, he provided technical assistance to developers, non-profits, local governments and other State agencies in the implementation of the smart growth objectives of compact, mixed-use, pedestrian and transit-oriented development. Carlos has worked in Europe and Asia, as well as in North America for private, civic and public entities. As an educator, he teaches community design and planning studios at Rutgers-Bloustein and in the Department of Landscape Architecture, as well as in the graduate planning program at Columbia University. He also teaches introductions to community design to housing authority and redevelopment authority officials. He is a frequent speaker at conferences of planning and design professionals. His work has been recognized by the Congress for the New Urbanism, the American Planning Association, the American Society of Landscape Architects, the New Jersey Planning Officials and other professional organizations. He is President of the New Jersey chapter of the American Planning Association, Secretary of Preservation New Jersey and chair of the Princeton Township Zoning Board of Adjustment. Carlos also teaches urban design at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University.