BFJ Planning is working with the Town of New Canaan to update their Zoning Regulations. The goal of the project is to guide development and redevelopment consistent with the community’s vision and values expressed in the 2024 Plan of Conservation and Development and to make the regulations as user-friendly as possible.

On December 3, 2025, the Middletown Township Planning Board unanimously adopted the Middletown Master Plan, prepared by BFJ Planning in collaboration with Matrix New World Engineering and Urbanomics. Located in Monmouth County, New Jersey, Middletown is shaped by its coastal geography and regional transit access via the NJ Transit North Jersey Coast Line. The Master Plan updates the Township’s planning framework to reflect current conditions and a shared long-term vision, establishing goals and recommendations across land use, transportation, infrastructure, community facilities, open space and conservation, historic preservation, economic development, and sustainability. The effort also included a climate change hazard vulnerability assessment and a robust public engagement process, including workshops, stakeholder meetings, an online Ideas Wall, and a township-wide survey.

The Town of Orange’s Plan and Zoning Commission engaged BFJ Planning to update its 2015 Plan of Conservation and Development. Through this planning process, BFJ led community outreach and conducted stakeholder interviews to help build consensus on a vision for Orange’s future. The plan provides recommendations on a range of issues including land use and zoning, housing, economic development, recreation and open space, community character, community facilities and services, environmental protection and transportation. The final document includes a future land use plan that provides strategies for accomplishing plan goals and objectives over the next decade. The plan was adopted in November 2025.

BFJ staffed a booth at Peekskill's Waterfront Development Open House on September 6. BFJ is working with the City of Peekskill, NY on a Cumulative Environmental Impact Report to provide an initial, generic assessment of potential significant environmental impacts from waterfront transit-oriented development (TOD) on three City-owned parking lots located just east of the Metro North Railroad tracks.

BFJ Planning’s 2025 Plan of Conservation and Development for the Town of Brookfield, CT, was unanimously adopted on September 4. The Plan will guide local growth, zoning, land use, and infrastructure planning for the next decade.

BFJ's Red Bank Train Station Redevelopment Plan will transform a 25-acre tract allowing for mixed use development and green spaces near the train station.

BFJ Planning has held public meetings in each of Rockland County’s five towns to hear views, ideas, and concerns in order to prepare the county’s 2025 Comprehensive Plan Update and Generic Environmental Impact Statement.

Red Bank Green highlights the Red Bank Train Station Redevelopment Plan, a plan developed by BFJ Planning and PE to transform a NJ Transit station parking lot and nearby properties into apartment buildings and new public plazas, “Planning Board OK’s Red Bank Train Station Redevelopment Plan.” The plan follows up on BFJ’s 2023 master plan for the Borough of Red Bank, NJ. NJTOD, NJ Transit’s newsletter, shared the story, as did TAPinto Red Bank.

BFJ Planning is honored to receive a Planning Achievement Award from the Westchester Municipal Planning Federation for the One White Plains Comprehensive Plan.

The East Hampton Star recaps a virtual workshop led by BFJ Planning’s Noah Levine and Emily Tolbert about the comprehensive plan for East Hampton Village

BFJ Planning has been retained to update Rockland County's comprehensive plan. The first meeting, held on March 19th, kicked off the 18 month planning process.

BFJ Planning has been awarded a contract by the Greenburgh Town Board to prepare zoning ordinance amendments in connection with a Four Corners Smart Growth Zoning program grant.

Susan Favate, BFJ Planning, presented a draft Environmental Review Inventory (ERI) at a public hearing. The Board unanimously approved the ERI which will amend the borough's Master Plan.

BFJ Planning is assisting the Village of East Hampton on its Comprehensive Plan Update and hosted the first public workshop on December 6, 2024.

BFJ Planning and Urbanomics were retained by the Jersey City Economic Development Corporation (JCEDC) to draft the 5-Year Zone Development Plan and Boundary Modifications.

BFJ Planning is working with the Town of Orange, CT to update their Plan of Conservation and Development. The first public workshop was held on November 13, 2024.

BFJ Planning is working with Mineola, NY on the New York Forward grant program. A second public workshop was held on September 30, 2024 to present public and private grant projects to the community for input.

Susan Favate is quoted about BFJ's redevelopment planning work around the NJ Transit station in Red Bank: “The new development will promote “a walkable, pedestrian-oriented, active, vibrant lifestyle."

On Tuesday, July 23, The City of Glen Cove Smart Growth Comprehensive Plan with Sustainability Elements, developed by BFJ Planning, was adopted by a unanimous city council vote.

A BFJ Planning team, led by Susan Favate, hosted a workshop to hear from the public about their desires for the redevelopment of a parking lot at the Red Bank train station.