[CPEO-BIF] Connecticut "prizes land preservation over redeveloping brownfields"

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

State prizes land preservation over redeveloping brownfields

BY PAUL HUGHES
WATERBURY REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN (CT)
June 21, 2008

HARTFORD -- State spending on brownfields hardly stacks up to the 
mountains of money going to green spaces in tight-packed Connecticut.

Spending patterns reflect state priorities, and the spreadsheet shows 
sparing land from development rates much, much higher than redeveloping 
polluted properties in the third-smallest and fourth most densely 
developed state in the country.

The State Bond Commission approved nearly $300 million in last 10 years 
for land preservation -- and a little more than $47 million for cleaning 
up brownfields for reuse.

Spending on land conservation jumped after laws passed in the late 1990s 
committed the state to setting aside 21 percent of Connecticut's nearly 
3.6 million acres as open spaces. The state is almost three-quarters of 
the way there.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.rep-am.com/articles/2008/06/21/news/349692.txt

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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