The goal of Los Angeles’ Brownfields Program is to develop effective strategies to enable redevelopment of brownfields throughout Los Angeles but particularly in disadvantaged communities and to incorporate these strategies into the City’s normal redevelopment process.

The City has created a Brownfields Team with members from the Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA), the Environmental Affairs Department (EAD), the Mayor’s Office of Economic Development, Community Development Department (CDD), the City Attorney's Office, City Council offices, and other departments and agencies as needed.

The teams have identified initial case study sites to test strategies to facilitate redevelopment of brownfields given various ownership scenarios and transaction and environmental barriers.

The City created a multi-million dollar Los Angeles Brownfields Revitalization Fund which can be used for assessment, acquisition, remediation, and community involvement activities at brownfields sites. Additional funds and incentives for site development are available.

Partnerships are being created between City departments, community organizations, and local, State, and Federal agencies to test brownfields strategies on case study sites.

The City promotes the use of various tools such as prospective purchaser agreements, comfort letters, State economic development tax incentives, State Voluntary Cleanup Agreements, and community involvement strategies among others in order to facilitate redevelopment of Brownfield sites.