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Originally Posted by durandy
The people with the money are lying to us; this is lobbying by developers not fact. They say they won't touch brownfield lands but if it is remediated and sold to them at competitive rates they aren't going to be arguing aesthetics anymore. If we end the incentives to keep land underused then these parcels will be sold to people who will use them. Yes it is more expensive to remediate these lands but that's offset by the far smaller servicing costs.
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It's not a matter of having the brownfields rehabilitated, but rather a lack of acreage. A couple of acres here and there just won't cut it. As for the US steel site it will more than likely be years before they decide what they want to sell off if anything at all.