Open Space Plans
2013 Hudson County Open Space Reexamination Report
The report was adopted by the Hudson County Planning Board in September 2013 (Planning Board Resolution Endorsing Plan). The report, along with the amended Funding Guidelines and Application Process, was adopted by the Hudson County Board of County Commissioners (Resolution 676-11-2013). See below for the report in sections.
- 0. Foward and Executive Summary
- 1. Past Goals and Objectives
- 2. Stakeholder Outreach
- 3. 2013 Goals and Objectives
- 4. Relation to Other Plans
- 5. Open Space Trust Fund Projects
- 6. Open Space Resources
- 7. Opportunities and Costraints
- 8. Implementation Tools
- 9. Definitions
- A-1: 2003 Establishing the Trust – Resolution 928-12-20031
- A-2: 2005 Projects Resolution – 405-10-20051
- B-1: Public Survey Results
- C-1: NJ National Registers of Historic Places (Updated 4/2013)
- C-2: NJDEP Green Acres Program Open Space Database for Hudson County (Updated 7/2013)
Lincoln Park in Jersey City: Master Plan for the Belmont Avenue Entrance
The subject of this Master Plan is the portion of Lincoln Park in Jersey City, New Jersey that stretches from the Belmont Avenue entrance at John F. Kennedy Boulevard to West Side Avenue. This portion of the park is located and is a contributing feature in the West Bergen-East Lincoln Park Historic District, listed on all three Registers of Historic Places by 2016 – the State of New Jersey (2014), Jersey City Municipal (2015) and the National (2016). This report addresses all of the features of this portion of the Park, including trees and plantings, utility infrastructure, paving, walls, fencing, benches, sculpture and built features (in particular the two “Sun Houses) from the Park entrance at JFK Boulevard to the walls and plazas at both sides of West Side Avenue. For more information on Lincoln Park, visit https://www.hcnj.us/parks/.
