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City Commission Meeting August 11, 2003 Page 8 The City Clerk read Resolution 03-1434 by title as follows: 'A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF CASSELBERRY, FLORIDA, DESIGNATING THE CASSELBERRY COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT DISTRICT AS A BROWNFIELD AREA FOR THE PURPOSE OF ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION, REHABILITATION, AND ECONOMIC REDEVELOPMENT; ESTABLISHING THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY AS THE BROWNFIELD AREA ADVISORY COMMITTEE; AUTHORIZING THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR TO NOTIFY TIlE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION OF SAID DESIGNATION; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE." Staff Presentation - The Florida Department of Environmental Protection, in association with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency offers redevelopment assistance to communities around the State. This assistance may come in the form of financial incentives, regulatory benefits and economic development assistance to help encourage redevelopment of an area of specific interest to the community. By designating the CRA District a Brownfield Area, the City encourages redevelopment by the private sector of specific Brownfield sites. Brownfield sites are individual, specific sites that are generally abandoned, idled or under-used industrial and commercial properties where expansion or redevelopment is complicated or perceived environmentally contaminated. Brownfield area means a contiguous areas of one or more sites, which may or may not be contaminated, that have been designated by resolution as a Brownfield Area by a local government. Staff Recommendation - The Planning and Zoning Commission considered Resolution 03-1434 on July 25, 2003 and recommended approval to the City Commission. The Community Development Director said the benefits of the Brownfield Area Designation in the CRA would enable potential developers access to State and Federal programs and the Resolution would be back after the required two noticed public hearings advertising if the Commission is interested in pursuing. The City Manager said that he would ask the State Department of Environmental Protection to address the Commission during the first public hearing. Audience Input - John Casselberry, 700 South Lost Lake Lane, Casselberry, Florida, 32707 - The City should not designate an area as a Brownfield Area until there is an actual finding of fact that there is contamination on the property that is verified by a Pollution Control Agency. The Community Development Director was asked to determine if any other CRA District had used the Brownfield Area Designation as a successful tool for redevelopment. The Commission was concerned that designation of the entire district as contaminated could be more of a detriment than benefit to redevelopment efforts and may be contrary to what the CRA is trying to accomplish. The consensus of the Commission was that a work session be scheduled with the State Department of Environmental Protection, the CRA Board and the City Commission. No formal action was taken by the Commission.