The Changing Shoreline: Managing the Coastal Region Monmouth County, New Jersey

This report contains both general and specific recommendations on how the coastal zone management plan can best be implemented in Monmouth County. It is part of a planning program between the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) and the eleven coastal counties called the State-County Coastal Coordination Project. The report also describes ways in which local municipalities can change their local master plans and/or zoning and land use ordinances to better protect and regulate building activity within the coastal zone. Other contents include: descriptions of the county character; implications of the proposed state coastal program for the county; state-local policy consistency; and a review of municipal experience with the county and the state.Prepared under the terms of contract to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Office of Coastal Zone Management, with financial assistance under the provisions of Section 305 of P.L. 92-538, Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972.Purpose: To make recommendations, both general and specific, on how the coastal zone management plan can best be implemented in Monmouth County