In another step that may help make it more palatable for businesses to develop along State Road 7, Margate commissioners are preparing to designate a brownfield area of the city that would bring state and federal funds for businesses located there.
The City Commission will vote before the end of the year to declare that most of the property in the city's Community Redevelopment Agency is a brownfield. According to Karen Hamilton, a regional planner with the South Florida Planning Council, a brownfield is a property that has been polluted by chemicals and must be cleaned up to prevent harm to the environment or people living in the area.
Under the State of Florida's Brownfield Redevelopment Act, designated properties thought to contain some sort of contamination or stigma because of previous businesses located there become eligible for federal clean-up funding and other economic and regulatory incentives, according to CRA Assistant Director Dennis Holste.
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