Real Estate/Development,
Government,
Administrative/Regulatory
Jan. 22, 2014
AB 440: Local governments get tools for cleaning up brownfields
On Oct. 5, Gov. Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 440, designed to help communities struggling with "blighted" properties.
Robert P. Doty
Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLPEmail: rdoty@coxcastle.com
Robert is a leading real estate redevelopment attorney and has worked on hundreds of contaminated sites, including industrial plants, landfills, rail yards, bulk terminals and closed military facilities.
On Oct. 5, Gov. Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 440, designed to help communities struggling with "blighted" properties. The new law revives tools that the state's redevelopment agencies had long used on polluted sites, also known as "brownfields." These tools enable local government to get brownfield sites cleaned up; hold historic polluters liable for the cleanup costs; and trigger immunities that encourage developers and lenders to work with local government to return these sites to ...
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