Brownfields Area Wide Plan

November 2010, NPC was awarded $175,000 from the EPA to heighten local community involvement in the execution of the Blue Greenway through a Brownfields Area-wide Planning process.

The geographic area of focus of NPC’s Area-Wide Plan will include brownfield-impacted land currently not funded for remediation along the Blue Greenway alignment in Bayview, and India Basin. These neighborhoods represent the historical industrial heart of the city and are plagued by Brownfields. Brownfields are defined by the EPA as “real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence of or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant or contaminant.” (Source: US EPA) For more information about the Browfields visit our Brownfields 101 page.

With the support of the EPA’s Brownfields Area-Wide Planning Pilot Program, NPC will facilitate local engagement in area-wide planning of the Blue Greenway for the revitalization of the brownfield-impacted community of Southeastern San Francisco. Drawing upon expertise from the Center for Creative Land Recycling (CCLR), EPA funding will also be used to generate an area-wide plan with the community that will address how to remediate and transform 5-10 areas along the Blue Greenway that continue to have negative health and safety impacts for adjacent low-income neighborhoods.

The NPC-led engagement process will give the neighbors an opportunity to express their open space, park and recreation needs.

CCLR (Center for Creative Land Recycling) will be partnering with NPC on this important initiative designed to support a full community process for the development of parks and open space along our long neglected southeastern waterfront. CCLR will bring its expertise in the redevelopment of contaminated land having assisted hundreds of communities across the state with the clean up and revitalization of historically-neglected and environmentally-challenged property.

The area-wide planning process will leverage existing efforts to identify and reduce threats to human health and the environment, and will facilitate assessment and revitalization of brownfields in the target area by identifying site-specific reuses for them. The plans will integrate site cleanup and reuse into coordinated strategies to lay the foundation for addressing community needs such as economic development, job creation, housing, recreation, and education and health facilities.

Click here to download the Brownfields Area-Wide Plan

Click here to download the Brownfields Area-Wide Planning Pilot Project Fact Sheet.

Click here to download the NPC Brownfields Area-Wide Plan Press Release and Media Advisory.

Click here to download the EPA Region 9 News Release.