| From: | Alan Hipolito <alan@teleport.com> |
| Date: | 18 Sep 1998 08:58:09 |
| Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
| Subject: | Feedback: Community Involvement |
Dear Everyone, My name is Alan Hipolito, and I work at the Urban League of Portland's Office of Environmental Programs. As some of you may know, Portland was designated both as a Demonstration Pilot and a Showcase Community. We have had some significant problems at achieving meaningful community involvement in those efforts. I would be happy to discuss these in further detail, but I will make this message brief. Recently, we have heard from EPA Region 10 that no other community is having such involvement problems or environmental justice issues with that community's Brownfields Demonstration Pilot or Showcase Project; in short, these issues only seem to exist in Portland (thereby implying that it is we in the community who have the problem). I thought I'd write to this discussion group to see whether any community folks out there are having similar difficulties, including: * lack of meaningful community involvement or access to brownfields decisionmaking * the public sector obtaining pilot funds or showcase designation based on statistics from its low- income communities or communities of color, yet directing very little in the way of pilot/showcase resources to those communities * lack of response to community concerns * being portrayed as malcontents when you advocate for your community's legitimate brownfields concerns Thanks for your time Alan Hipolito Urban League of Portland --------------E45FCD184266629698FFB54B Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <HTML> Dear Everyone, <P>My name is Alan Hipolito, and I work at the Urban League of Portland's Office of Environmental Programs. As some of you may know, Portland was designated both as a Demonstration Pilot and a Showcase Community. We have had some significant problems at achieving meaningful community involvement in those efforts. I would be happy to discuss these in further detail, but I will make this message brief. Recently, we have heard from EPA Region 10 that no other community is having such involvement problems or environmental justice issues with that community's Brownfields Demonstration Pilot or Showcase Project; in short, these issues only seem to exist in Portland (thereby implying that it is <I>we</I> in the community who have the problem). I thought I'd write to this discussion group to see whether any community folks out there are having similar difficulties, including: <P>* lack of meaningful community involvement or access to brownfields decisionmaking <BR>* the public sector obtaining pilot funds or showcase designation based on statistics from its low- income communities or communities of color, yet directing very little in the way of pilot/showcase resources to those communities <BR>* lack of response to community concerns <BR>* being portrayed as malcontents when you advocate for your community's legitimate brownfields concerns <P>Thanks for your time <P>Alan Hipolito <BR>Urban League of Portland</HTML> --------------E45FCD184266629698FFB54B-- |
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