[CPEO-BIF] New Castle County, Delaware

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Developers bend NCCo code limits

Critics say redevelopment status used
loosely for perks

By CHAD LIVENGOOD
Wilmington News Journal •
August 16, 2010

To encourage developers to turn decaying
brownfields and abandoned buildings into
productive properties, New Castle County has
modified its land-use plan to give certain projects a
financial and regulatory break.

As recently as 2008, the County Council tweaked the
code. But instead of reclaiming eyesores, critics say,
the county is greasing the way for developers who
are turning functioning office parks and empty
parcels into commercial sites.

In one case, a developer has proposed to build a
Lowe's home-improvement store, a restaurant and
another big-box store on a piece of mostly
undeveloped land at the corner of U.S. 40 and Del. 7
in Bear. Aside from a TD Bank on one end, the 32-
acre lot is a greenfield that was never fully
developed.


...

For the entire article, see
http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20100816/NEWS02/8160323

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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
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