Sessions
Plenary Session - The State's Role in Land Use
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Thu
Tom Wright is president and CEO of Regional Plan Association (RPA), the nation’s oldest independent metropolitan research, planning and advocacy organization. Tom led the production of RPA’s Fourth Regional Plan, released in 2017, which proposed 61 recommendations to reform public institutions; modernize transportation systems; tackle the challenge of climate change; and provide affordable and livable communities for all the region’s residents. In January, 2020, Governor Phil Murphy appointed Tom Chair of the New Jersey State Planning Commission and he is a visiting lecturer at Columbia University's GSAPP.