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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