Hear what communities are saying about Integrated Planning Grants!
This 8 minute video shows highlights of interviews with representatives
of the cities of Wenatchee, Spokane, Tacoma, Walla Walla, and Palouse.
Most communities say the same things about brownfields and the need for
integrated planning:
Brownfield redevelopments are challenging.
Communities need to develop a strategy and form an interdisciplinary team of people to move
these projects forward. This grant helps do that.
The Integrated Planning Grant provides funding to approach a brownfield site in a holistic manner.
The grant can provide resources specifically for site assessment, economic analysis, site
planning, community involvement, and regulatory analysis.
This grant helped them launch their multi-year projects.
Ecology will help your community work through the process!
About
Integrated Planning Grants provide up to $200,000 to local governments
without requiring local matching funds. These grants allow local
governments to conduct due diligence on a brownfield site and create a
well-developed strategy for cleanup and redevelopment before investing
local funds.
Integrated plans establish a vision for a contaminated property’s future
use that energizes the redevelopment effort and drives the cleanup
process. Integrated plans outline a strategy to solve multiple problems
that stem from contamination. The plan may address habitat restoration,
recreational opportunities, and infrastructure development as part of
the overall cleanup process. The plan would also include funding
strategies that leverage multiple grant and loan opportunities to carry
a project through to completion.
Eligible Integrated Planning Grant Activities
Redevelopment planning
Environmental site
characterization
Land use and
regulatory analysis
Economic and fiscal
analysis
Administrative costs
Who is Eligible?
The grant applicant must be a local government. Priority and preference
will be given to local governments that have not previously received a
remedial action grant or meet the disadvantaged communities’ criteria to
this approval.
Contact: John Means, Brownfields Program Manager, Toxics Cleanup
Program
360-407-7188
john.means@ecy.wa.gov
City of Palouse- Palouse Producers Site
The City of Palouse (population of about 1,200) is located roughly 15 miles
north of Pullman, Washington. The Palouse Producers Brownfield is located in
the city’s downtown commercial district on the right bank of the North Fork
Palouse River. Before city officials could decide whether to take
ownership of this property, they wanted to find out more information about
the properties history, condition, and look at redevelopment options.
The City of Palouse was able to find answers to these questions through IPG
funds. Here are a few reports the city funded with its grant:
The North Foothills property is a site currently owned and occupied by the
City of Spokane Water Department. With community and neighborhood input, the
study will identify likely development scenarios and undertake preliminary
environmental assessment work needed for future transition of the site to
neighborhood-compatible housing and commercial uses.
The funding provided environmental analysis, engineering studies, conceptual
redevelopment design, financial and market analysis. Here are some examples
of their findings:
The City of Wenatchee (City) is beginning a process to redevelop the site of
the former Public Works Yard at 25 North Worthen Street. Historical
activities on the property have left residual contamination that will need
to be addressed to allow adaptive re-use of the site. Redevelopment of the
former Public Works Yard is being coordinated with a number of private and
public development projects in the surrounding area that are currently in
the planning phase. Wenatchee officials conducted some environmental
investigation and redevelopment planning. View their Redevelopment
Assessment Report here:
Foss Waterway Development Authority – City of Tacoma
The Foss Waterway Development Authority (FWDA) was recently awarded an IPG
and they are just getting started. They wish to conduct further
planning for park redevelopment on the American Plating Site located at 2110
East D Street on the Thea Foss Waterway in Tacoma. The site was partially
remediated by Ecology prior to its purchase by the FWDA under a
Pre-Purchaser Agreement and is bound by a Consent Decree, a legal agreement
that details the work that will be done at the site.
Upcoming activities will include:
completing market analysis and an economic and financial feasibility study;
obtaining site surveys;
performing required endangered species or cultural reviews;
designing the park and public esplanade.
For more information on the Foss Waterway Development Authority visit
www.theafoss.com
City of Walla Walla
The City of Walla Walla was recently awarded an IPG. Work is in
the early stages.
The former Burdine property, located along East Isaacs Avenue, includes
about 15 acres. The site is bounded by the 85-acre Tausick Way Landfill
to the south and east, and East Isaacs Avenue on the north. The Burdine
site provides excellent commercial redevelopment potential. Since the
construction of the East Isaacs Avenue arterial project in 2007, city
officials have been very interested in redeveloping the site as
commercial property.
Upcoming activities will primarily include environmental investigation
of the property.
