[CPEO-BIF] Questionable Brownfield in Brockville, Florida

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Brownfield status for Brooksville project means money for developers, frustration for Commission

By Barbara Behrends
Tampa Bay Times (FL)
December 3, 2017

BROOKSVILLE - Promotional materials on the website of developer Housing Trust Group show drawings depicting a completed 104-unit garden-style apartment complex with an inviting swimming pool.

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The developer wants the county to designate the site a "Brownfield" - a property on which development "may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant,’’ according to the definition by the Environmental Protection Agency.

Only the developer’s representative has told the commission there is no contamination on the site. Months ago, before the Housing Trust Group broke ground and began to build, photos were taken of trash piled up nearby. But there was no testing for contaminants to find out what might lie beneath the site before construction began.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.tampabay.com/article/20171129/ARTICLE/311299718/1071

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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