[CPEO-BIF] Community Regeneration legislation

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Senator working on bill to help deteriorating neighborhoods

Measure designed for larger cities

Chillicothe Gazette (OH)
March 12, 2009

A piece of federal legislation recently introduced by U.S. Sen. Sherrod 
Brown and U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan to create a local/federal partnership 
approach to dealing with vacant and abandoned properties may not have 
much impact in Ross County.

Brown announced the legislation, the Community Regeneration, 
Sustainability and Innovation Act of 2009, during a conference call 
Wednesday. The three-year, $500 million demonstration program would 
provide funding to 15 small cities of 150,000 people or fewer and 15 
large cities over the three years to find innovative ways of dealing 
with vacant structures and properties to improve the character of the 
neighborhoods in which they are located.

Such properties, which Brown said can be found in "darn near every Ohio 
community," drain public resources, reduce property values in the area 
and often create an increased fire hazard.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.chillicothegazette.com/article/20090312/NEWS01/903120301/1002/NEWS01

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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