2012 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:50:13 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Connecticut reforms
 
Change in state brownfields laws could stimulate development

Vinti Singh
Connecticut Post
January 14, 2012

BRIDGEPORT -- One day, Steel Point will be Steelpointe. The pollution and the contamination on the prime peninsula in the city will be replaced with houses, stores and restaurants. It's a dream that's been deferred for more than a decade, partly because of the state's confusing requirements for cleaning up post-industrial waste sites, experts said.

Steel Point and the other unused contaminated sites in Bridgeport could bring in as much as $50 million in property taxes, said Ed Lavernoich, the city's deputy director in the Office of Planning and Economic Development. But before these sites can be used again, they must be scrubbed of all their pollution and meet standards set by the state.

But those standards are so convoluted and inconsistent that often developers will shy away from investing in a brownfield at all.

"The problem is not that a developer's proposal for a brownfields site failed," said Carl Wagener, director of the Council on Environmental Quality. "It's that when executives hear how long it might take to clean the site and the potential uncertainty of if it will ever be approved for development, they say `we can't do that. Give us something ready to go.'"


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For the entire article, see
http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Change-in-state-brownfields-laws- could-stimulate-2530126.php

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