[CPEO-BIF] "'Brownfield' stigma," Indian RiverCounty, Florida

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

'Brownfield' stigma not worth economic development benefits, some Indian 
River landowners say

By Henry A. Stephens
TCPalm (FL)
April 5, 2010

INDIAN RIVER COUNTY - Sometimes passionate objections from a roomful of 
angry Oslo property owners Monday night may persuade county 
commissioners to remove most private properties from a proposed 
economic-development area under the Florida Brownfield Program.

"We heard you loud and clear," commission Chairman Peter O'Bryan told 
residents and other property owners in a workshop at the Brackett 
Library on the Indian River State College Mueller campus.

County officials had called the workshop to explain why they proposed 
designating about 600 acres southwest off 74th Avenue and Fifth Street 
Southwest as a Brownfield Area.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2010/apr/05/brownfield-stigma-not-worth-economic-development/

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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>
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