[CPEO-BIF] Brown-to-Green plan for Huntington Park, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Huntington Park [California] Brown-to-Green Implementation Plan

Communities for a Better Environment
September, 2013

Executive Summary

In 2010, Communities for a Better Environment (CBE) received a  
Brownfields Area-Wide Planning Grant from the Environmental  
Protection Agency (EPA) to conduct research, receive technical  
assistance, and undergo training to create an area-wide plan and  
implementation strategy to redevelop brownfield sites. A permissible  
use of the grant funds included facilitating civic engagement in the  
brownfield remediation planning process.

Over the course of the project, CBE conducted extensive community  
outreach, including facilitating planning workshops, focus group  
discussions, and brownfield training sessions.

The discussions were centered on a 100-acre site in northwest of City  
of Huntington Park (CA), which contained a number of  brownfields.  
The Brown-to-Green project area is bounded by Slauson Avenue to the  
north, Cottage Avenue to the east, Gage Avenue to the south, and  
Wilmington Avenue to the west ...

The Project Area has long been home to heavy manufacturing operations  
which have cvause soil and groundwater contamination throughout the  
area. The economic downturn has stalled the City of Huntington Park's  
efforts to redevelop the brownfield area.

...

To download the entire executive summary and the entirety of the 14.2  
MB, 78-page document, go to
http://www.cbecal.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/CBE-Huntington-Park- 
Brown-to-Green-Report1.pdf

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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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