[CPEO-BIF] "Brownfields Have Potential To Generate Millions In Local Tax Revenue" in Newtown Connecticut

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Brownfields Have Potential To Generate Millions In Local Tax Revenue

By John Voket
Newtown Bee (CT)
May 28, 2014


About a decade ago, Connecticut started getting serious about  
reclaiming and reusing former and abandoned, environmentally tainted  
industrial sites known as brownfields. Around that same time,  
Newtown’s Director of Economic and Community Development Elizabeth  
Stocker began compiling an informal list of local brownfield sites.

Once she realized there were grant and other assistance programs  
offering funds and services to assess these contaminated former  
industrial sites, she also began applying for help in the hopes of  
eventually returning some or all of these local parcels to some  
degree of productive use.

Pursuing that goal would not only provide financial benefits to the  
community and its taxpayers by returning these unused or abandoned  
properties to the tax rolls, but would also help to mitigate the  
types of public health issues that arise around these sites like  
contaminated water tables.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.newtownbee.com/news/news/2014/05/28/brownfields-have- 
potential-generate-millions-local/209479

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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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