Most people agree that there is room for development near existing settlements, and that towns and cities can be more creative in identifying brownfields.
When sited strategically, such as on rooftops, parking lots and other hardscape areas, or on brownfields and landfills, DG can put existing land and infrastructure to more productive use.
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Meanwhile, across the river in America, you see globalism's economic underbelly: crumbling row houses, unemployment offices, and defunct factories parked on EPA-designated brownfields, the sediment of a century's toxic runoff.
You know the things the Republicans want in it and you know we want an education tax cut, as well as some environmental relief for brownfields and some other very specific things.
The ways to accommodate such growth in an already dense and developed city inherently tend to be green: improving public transport, redeveloping brownfields, making infrastructure and water supply more reliable and efficient.
Developers cheered two years ago when Congress passed the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act, which gave them protection from environmental liability when they redeveloped brownfields--mostly abandoned industrial sites that might be contaminated.
The Brownfields law was a big change to the Superfund law, which had held property owners strictly liable for lingering contamination, whether they caused it or not, and forced them to pay huge cleanup bills.
And he helped implement PlaNYC, a long-term scheme to build houses for up to 1m New Yorkers, link them to transport, clean up brownfields, plant 1m trees and improve air and water across the five boroughs.
The idea of the new Brownfields law was this: To encourage redevelopment of the 450, 000 brownfield sites that would otherwise lie fallow, the government needed to provide liability protection to developers who took certain reasonable steps before and after buying a property.
According to Cisco, the u-City project will help Busan to boost economic development, increase revenue, encourage citizen engagement, reduce city operations costs, support brownfield revitalization (many of the Smart Work Centers will be built on brownfields), and strengthen city operations management and social resiliency.
From a French fur trader with an iron hand to the Army Corps of Engineers reshaping the riverbed, Indian casinos built on brownfields to 280, 000 radioactive mice buried at the Falls, many of Niagara's stories are like the drums secreted in its landfills: shoved out of sight, covered over to look presentable, and driven by with glazed eyes, a quick flick of the radio volume.
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