[CPEO-BIF] Connecticut - "everyone is on the same side"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Business, DEP Want More Brownfield Redevelopment
Finding dedicated funding source, speeding review process are keys

By Brad Kane
Hartford Business (CT)
January 3, 2010


Rarely do developers and the Connecticut Department of Environmental 
Protection agree on anything, but businesses and environmentalists have 
found an issue both can get behind. The road that runs behind the 
Remington Rand building in Middletown, the site of a massive city 
clean-up and development.

Cleaning up blighted and contaminated properties for redevelopment is 
the best way to improve the environment, grow industry, increase tax 
rolls and reduce sprawl all at once.

Connecticut has thousands of opportunities for brownfield remediation - 
more than 13,000 - and the issue isn't getting quality projects done. 
It's getting more of them done.

"It is the only issue that I know of where everyone is on the same 
side," said Eric Brown, associate counsel for the Connecticut Business & 
Industry Association. "It is really a win all around. It's hard to find 
a downside."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.hartfordbusiness.com/news16169.html

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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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