May 5, 2011
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On May 5, 2011 NJPO held its annual B.Budd Chavooshian Memeorial Conference and awards dinner honoring achievements in planning. That night, NJPO presented a check to the B. Budd Chavooshian Endowed Fellowship which brought the total to $30,000 toward the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.

The Fellowship is in recognition of Budd's unique dedication and leadership in developing local planning in New Jersey.  Budd Chavooshian was dedicated to sound land use planning in New Jersey throughout his career. He pioneered many innovative concepts that are now part of New Jersey’s landscape. The concept of transfer of development rights, now enacted into statewide legislation, was an idea that he vigorously championed for almost two decades.

Following his retirement, Budd continued working on committees and projects for NJPO, and completed a four year term as Vice President in December 1998. He took great pride in organizing NJPO state planning conferences and chaired his last, in celebration of the 60th anniversary of NJPO’s first state planning conference, in April 1999. All future NJPO state planning conferences, the Board of Directors decided, will be named in his honor.

Widely acknowledged as one of New Jersey’s finest professionals, he was also a dedicated citizen planner. At the time of his death on May 27, 1999, Budd also was an active member of the Trenton Planning Board. 

A professor emeritus of Rutgers' Cook College, he also was a former Assistant Commissioner in the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, where he was involved in developing the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission and the State's Green Acres Program.  He also served as a member of New Jersey's Pinelands Commission for more than seventeen years.

NJPO is proud of its on-going leadership role with the Chavooshian Memorial Fellowship fund and our past association with Budd Chavooshian. We are extremely pleased to have the continuing support of his widow, Marge Chavooshian, who takes great pride in seeing Budd’s legacy continue.

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