[CPEO-BIF] Welland, Ontario brownfields incentives

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Incentives could be the tipping point; Council will debate brownfield 
community improvement plan and redevelopment strategy

GREG FURMINGER
Welland Tribune
May 1, 2007

Local News - It's going to make dollars and sense to invest in the 
redevelopment of Welland's abandoned commercial and industrial lands.

If city council adopts the municipality's brownfield community 
improvement plan and redevelopment strategy tonight, there will be some 
financial incentives for those who tackle Welland's vacant and overgrown 
properties.

"The incentives could be the tipping point for (redevelopment of) these 
properties," Mayor Damian Goulbourne says.

They include:

- that the city fund 50 per cent of the cost of an environmental site 
assessment plan or risk assessment, providing a maximum grant of $15,000 
per study, for a maximum two studies and combined grant limit of $25,000;

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.wellandtribune.ca/webapp/sitepages/content.asp?contentid=509573&catname=Local%20News&classif=

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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