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Coronavirus: Are You Covered? By Janet Menacher Public entities facing increasing losses and costs in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis should check their insurance policies to determine whether those losses may be covered by their insurance profile. Many insurance policies, particularly, specialized coverages with sub-limits contain strict claims reporting deadlines, so now is the […]

Jeff Orrell, Senior Associate, Brown & Winters While it may not be obvious to the naked eye, former military sites can be anywhere, and in fact, they appear to be everywhere. These are often sizeable properties, making them well-suited for large redevelopment projects. However, Brownfields redevelopment often requires contaminant remediation, which in turn requires remediation

Jeffrey Orrell, Partner In February 2016 the law firm of Brown & Winters assisted the City of Stockton in entering one of the first, if not the first, environmental oversight agreements (EOAs) with the California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) under newly-enacted Assembly Bill 440 (Cal. Health and Safety Code §25403, et seq .).

By: Wentzelee Botha, Scott Patterson and Matthew McDonald In early 2012, local municipalities suddenly had to reevaluate their means for addressing blighted and contaminated properties within their districts. Redevelopment agencies throughout the state no longer existed. Though the full impact of the dissolution was yet to be determined, it was evident that one of the

Article by: William D. Brown, Esq. The Redevelopment Agency for the City of Chula Vista has recently enjoyed success in passing on the cost of environmental clean-up. Chula Vista is the first redevelopment agency to benefit from important provisions of the Polanco Act. Under an agreement with the State Water Board, Chula Vista has issued

Volume 26/Number 5 September 2003 THE POLANCO REDEVELOPMENT ACT: CALIFORNIA’S MOST IMPORTANT BROWNFIELDS STATUTE By William D. Brown and Audrey Winters From Toxic Nightmares to Community Assets It’s the early 1990’s, and an embattled blue-collar neighborhood in Sacramento faces a toxic nightmare. Fire ravaged an abandoned community hospital releasing friable asbestos; prostitutes and crackheads taking

A Redevelopment Agency’s Perspective By Audrey Winters, Attorney at Law Mike Milich, City Attorney, City of Modesto Roland Stevens, Assistant City Attorney, City of Modesto Mike Milich and Roland Stevens, attorneys for the Modesto Redevelopment Agency, faced the brownfields’ equivalent of the perfect storm. Environmental investigation and testing in the already beleaguered Modesto Redevelopment Project