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QUESTION & ANSWER with
The Father of Smart Growth
Former Maryland Governor Parris N. Glendening
Parris N. Glendening is president of Smart Growth Leadership Institute, a project of Smart Growth America, a nationwide coalition of nearly 100 organizations promoting a better way to grow. Prior to that, Mr. Glendening spent eight years as Governor of the State of Maryland, where he made the environment the heart of his legislative, administrative …
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Features
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EPA and NOAA To Address Coastal Growth, Development Issues
The U.S. EPA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have formalized an agreement to work together to help coastal communities grow in ways that benefit the economy, public health …
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Regional Report
On October 27, 2004, Bill 133 — the Environmental Enforcement Statute Law Amendment Act, 2004 — was introduced into the Ontario Legislature. The stated purpose of the bill is to enhance quick enforcement action against polluters and encourage businesses to …
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By Sean Love, Dan Kirby, Radha Curpen
On October 27, 2004, Bill 133 — the
Environmental Enforcement Statute Law Amendment Act, 2004 — was
introduced into the Ontario Legislature. The stated purpose of the bill …
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By John Stevens
Forty years ago, I took a couple hundred of my hard-earned dollars and bought my first car. I bought it from a dealer who was subsequently prosecuted for sales tax fraud and declared bankruptcy before he went to jail. The …
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By Mitch Fasken
In Ontario, smart growth is the most misused term describing the issues associated with urban and suburban growth. Its definition here ranges from urban intensification to a suburban freeze on boundary expansions to increased open space for biodiversity in urban …
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By Jessica Eisenman
Brownfield redevelopment is commonly considered one of
the most effective ways to manage growth and curb sprawl in rapidly growing
areas. As an urban infill development that will …
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By Conan Smith
Fred Zorn dons a Carhardt jacket against
Michigan’s February weather and jokes about the adventures that
accompany site inspections in his fast-reviving town. “Hopefully I
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Newly-elected Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels has
suspended the Indiana Land Resources Council. The council was created in
1999 to address issues of sprawl, redevelopment, planning and conservation.
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By J. Michael Sowinski Jr.
On January 24th, 2005, in U.S. v Qwest Corp., the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota noted EPA’s obligation to register underground pump-and-treat piping with the state One Call Center. The EPA’s failure to register the …
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By Ken Huber, Ed Geibert and Ken Friedman
Four hundred years after Jersey City was first
settled, its waterfront has been reborn as a new business hub. Long gone
are the old rail yards, wharves and …
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By Caroline Wells and Sue Schwartz
The Southside neighborhood of Greensboro, North
Carolina, located just south of downtown along the railroad tracks,
remained largely forgotten by the city for decades. Between 1880 and 1910, …
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By Ronnie Harris, Stephen D. Villavaso and Lesley Kordella
The Wildlife Habitat Council (WHC) works with its
members and partners to meet a challenge issued by THE U.S. EPA for
America’s corporations — reviewing where ecological reuse …
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By Dan Reuter
To help promote greater livability in towns and employment centers, the Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) launched the Livable Centers Initiative (LCI) program in 1999. LCI provides seed money to communities with bold visions of a more livable future and …
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By James Hencke and G.B. Arrington
The Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Region claims the
most aggressive Transit Oriented Development (TOD) program in the U.S.
Although Portland’s approach to TOD has evolved over the past 30 …
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By Jennifer L. Hernandez and Alfred Fraijo Jr.
In a tortured journey commenced by a broad coalition
of community-based housing and civil rights advocacy groups under the
leadership of Senator Gil Cedillo (D-Los Angeles), the California …
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By Ignacio Dayrit
Emeryville, California is a 1.2-square- mile
city-by-the-bay once packed with acres of brownfields that dragged down the
economy and quality of life.
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The current and former owners of historic Port Gamble
in Washington received the state’s highest environmental award for
their work in cleaning up contamination throughout the town. Pope …
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New Jersey Acting Governor Richard J. Codey has signed legislation that provides qualified developers liability protection against natural resource damage claims at brownfield sites across the state.
“The Governor’s action provides innocent companies assurance that they will not be held liable …
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Departments
Ask the Expert Department
By Todd S. Davis, Esq.
Question:
Dear Todd:
I am the brownfield coordinator for a medium-sized city. We have identified a fifty-acre brownfield in a heavily industrialized area that seems well suited for …
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Community Department
By Kelly Novak
When one thinks about rural America’s
landscape, the word “frontier” comes to mind. Just as the
definition of the word frontier suggests, rural America is the compilation
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Guest Op / Ed
By Reed D. Rubinstein, Peter Gillon
In his op/ed in the February 2005 issue of Brownfield News, Reed Rubinstein wrote that Superfund is out of sync with today’s realities. (Read it at www.brownfieldnews.com.) This article offers an opinion on what the brownfield industry should say about …
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Point / Counterpoint
By Sven-Erik Kaiser
Brownfields and smart growth are inextricably linked
in their history and their impact. The U.S. EPA’s initiatives on
brownfields and smart growth are leading examples of the close …
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Point / Counterpoint
By Storm Cunningham
Smart growth was one of the two healthiest, most valuable dialogues to hit planning and economic development circles in closing decades of the 20th Century (the other being sustainable development).
As dialogues, they are vital and productive, but we are now …
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Point / Counterpoint
By Weston Donehower
There is no doubt that brownfield redevelopment and
smart growth are key tools to revitalizing communities. The U.S.
EPA’s brownfield and smart growth programs have been a catalyst …
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Policy Department
By Charlie Bartsch
If President Bush’s February 7 budget submission to Congress is any indicator, 2005 promises to be quite a roller coaster ride for federal programs aimed at economic and community development, with brownfield efforts just one car on the train. Bush …
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Renewal Magazine
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With the Washington budget showing no signs of a quick-and-easy resolution, federal brownfields programs are unlikely to get much of …
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Brownfields and crop development—for the express intent of producing foods—are concepts that have always been strange bedfellows. Mutually exclusive. An…
At this abandoned, blighted factory—consisting of 187,227 square feet in 21 different structures on 13.5 acres in the three…
PROJECT GOAL: To revitalize land that had been sitting idle for years by putting the property back into productive…
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Industry Profiles
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Graham Stevens Hartford, CT
Brownfields Coordinator for the Connecticut Dept. of Environmental Protection
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Brownfield Stateside Report
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by Staff Report
In Michigan, some are predicting a better business climate for redevelopment and regulatory closure of contaminated properties thanks to a bill Michigan Governor Rick Snyder was scheduled to sign last week. The new regulations should have a positive impact on commercial real estate development and brownfields redevelopment resulting in the creation of jobs. |
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Susan Boyle
Mt. Laurel
Senior Environmental Practice Leader, GEI Consultants
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