Background: The City’s Brownfields Revitalization Program provides assistance to a wide range of individual development sites throughout the City of Los Angeles. The Brownfields Site Assistance Work Program, under the direction of the Brownfields Executive Team, is carried out by the Brownfields Resource Team, consisting of senior staff from the Environmental Affairs Department, the Community Redevelopment Agency, the Community Development Department, the Mayor’s Office of Economic Development, and the Chief Legislative Analyst’s office. Additional staff assistance is provided by the U.S. EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers. Program assistance falls under six primary categories: On-Call Technical Assistance; Exploratory Site Assessments; Major Economic Development Sites; Special Purpose Capacity-Building Sites; Brownfields Demonstration Sites and Showcase Community Matching Fund Sites; and Showcase Community Matching Fund Sites.

The purpose of the Exploratory Site Assessments is to increase the City’s overall capacity to identify and manage brownfields strategies and approaches on a variety of sites that are not directly related to economic development activities. Sites include recreational, housing and former gas station operations. City Council must approve any allocation of funds over $100,000 to an individual site. Special Purpose projects have been initiated in three subcategories:

    Recreation--In the first year     of funding the Brownfields Executive Team and the City Council allocated funds to augment the Damson Oil Settlement Fund on Venice Beach. Brownfields monies will be used to provide remedial and oversight activities pursuant to an approved remedial action plan. Site work should begin in early spring, 2001.

    Former Gas Station Strategy Development--During the most recent call for sites several Council Offices and City departments nominated a number of former gas station sites. To help address this growing issue the Brownfields team, working with LAFD, B&S and others, will provide assistance to help develop a coordinated approach to documenting the environmental and development status of these blighted locations.

    Housing – L & Lecouvreur--This 2-plus acre site in Wilmington will allow the Brownfields team to work with additional City departments to further expand the program's overall capacity and assistance efforts.

For more information on the City's Brownfields Program contact: 
Craig Tranby at (213) 978-0871 or fax (213) 978-0890; for more information on the City’s Economic Development Programs contact John De Witt at (213) 978-0670 or fax (213) 978-0607.

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