FW: [CPEO-BIF] Subsidies

[peter]

I look at the brownfields issue from afar, but I had thought that by the
very nature of the Brownfields Program, developers obtain some sort of
public "subsidy", whether it be in the form of site characterization,
reduced liability etc. From my own limited experience in the San Francisco
Bay Area, brownfields programs addressed how to ease the financial burden of
cleaning up and developing un-used contaminated urban properties. 

Perhaps I am missing something? Perhaps someone could explain what makes a
property qualify as a Brownfield with a capital B, not merely an abandoned
contaminated property in an urban area, without it first receiving some sort
of subsidy. 

Peter Strauss      

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[mailto:brownfields-bounces at list.cpeo.org] On Behalf Of Lenny Siegel
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Subject: Re: FW: [CPEO-BIF] Subsidies

I like Peter's "clawback" proposal.

Unlike some of the private sector representatives on the list, I don't 
see such conditions as the imposition of new impediments to development. 
Development has always been supported by a wide range of "carrots" and 
limited by a wide range of "sticks." Many of those are taken for granted 
because they have been in state and federal tax code for a long time. 
Peter's proposal would refocus such carrots and sticks, not introduce 
them for the first time.

Lenny

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