CAFRA and Coastal Centers of New Jersey

This data layer is a depiction of the boundaries of CAFRA centers, CAFRA cores, CAFRA nodes, mainland coastal centers, and non-mainland coastal centers used in CAFRA permitting by the NJDEP. CAFRA centers, cores and nodes are those centers, cores and nodes, respectively, that have been adopted by the State Planning Commission and reviewed and accepted by the Department for the purposes of CAFRA. The Department delineated mainland and non-mainland coastal centers, based in part on centers identified in the 1992 State Development and Redevelopment Plan, where the State Planning Commission had not yet designated centers. Delineations were digitized over 1991 orthophotography at a minimum scale of 1:12,000. 1995 orthophotography was used to spot check ground conditions. The NJ Office of Planning Advocacy GIS layers were utilized for this update for CAFRA Centers, Nodes & Cores including: Cores and Nodes Boundaries of NJ State Development and Redevelopment Plan New Jersey (Update 9/6/2023) and Designated Center of NJ State Development and Redevelopment Plan (Update 12/4/2023). For the Coastal Non – Mainland Centers, 2020 Landuse Landcover Water Type was removed and center boundaries were adjusted to 2020 Municipalities Layer.