Webinar: The Brownfields Area-Wide Planning Pilot: Early Implementation and Future Directions (Feb. 17)
The National Association of Local Government Environmental Professionals (NALGEP) is hosting a webinar on February 17, 2011 from 2:00-3:30pm addressing the recent EPA Brownfield Area-Wide Planning Pilot program. From NALGEP:
In 2010, EPA’s Office of Brownfields and Land Revitalization established the Brownfields Area-Wide Planning Pilot Program (AWP) and selected 23 pilot communities from across the country. The AWP pilot program will assist communities in developing area-wide plans that integrate the cleanup and reuse of brownfield sites into larger, coordinated efforts to revitalize surrounding areas. Through focused attention to an area (such as a neighborhood, district or corridor) affected by brownfield sites, the pilot communities will conduct community involvement and reuse planning activities that will result in a framework within which site assessment and cleanup can take place. Once developed, the area-wide plans for brownfield cleanup and redevelopment can be integrated at local and regional levels, which is expected to yield mutual benefits for both processes, improved environmental quality, and better and more efficient outcomes for communities. By more explicitly tying brownfields cleanup and redevelopment with planning, EPA sees an opportunity to use lessons from the pilot to incorporate planning into other brownfields programs.
Speakers from EPA will give an overview of the AWP program, describe which communities were selected for the pilot and why, and discuss how the program fits into OBLR programs, EPA priorities, and Obama Administration initiatives. Andy Bracker from Kansas City will provide an on-the-ground perspective by describing Kansas City’s proposal and early implementation.
Speakers:
David Lloyd
Director, Office of Brownfields and Land Revitalization
EPA
Aimee Storm
Lead, Brownfields Area-Wide Planning Pilot Program
EPA
Andrew Bracker
Brownfields Coordinator, Department of City Planning and Development
Kansas City, MO
Register for the webinar here. Questions can be directed to nalgep@spiegelmcd.com.
