City holds Opportunities to Revitalize Norwich Pprogram
NORWICH – In order to determine the location of some underutilized city sites and to provide for their return to public use, a public meeting will be held at 7 p.m. next Monday at the City Courthouse.
It will be the first in a three-part planning study for the Opportunities to Revitalize Norwich Program.
The city received funding for the program through a grant from the Department of State’s Brownfield Opportunity Areas Program, and will be using it to conduct a study designed to identify abandoned, vacant or underutilized sites on the east side of the city, in an effort to potentially revitalize them.
The study is restricted to sites located on the east side of Broad Street.
“This is going to concern land use issues, as opposed to social problems,” said City Planning and Development Specialist Todd Dreyer.
Although the grant is part of the Brownfield Opportunity Areas Program, the study will not be restricted to brownfield sites. “We don’t really know if some of these sites are contaminated. Our underlying interest is in determining what is necessary to redevelop these sites. Not all of them will be found to be contaminated,” Dreyer said.
The public meeting will include a powerpoint presentation corresponding to the city’s comprehensive plan. Maps that show the area have been prepared and some sites of potential interest – such as the NYSEG site and some properties on Borden Avenue – have been identified.
“The end product will be a community-based plan for redevelopment of key parcels in the program area,” a press release from the city states. The program is designed to: Foster the redevelopment and reuse of brownfields or other underutilized land, provide an improved business environment, remove uncertainties that often hinder redevelopment, improve the environmental quality, build relationships with other state and local agencies and increase competitiveness for future grant funding.
“This public meeting is crucial to the development of a community-based plan, and will elicit resident and stakeholder goals, objectives and visions for the future of Norwich,” the press release states.
For more information about the meeting, contact Dreyer at 334-1229.
It will be the first in a three-part planning study for the Opportunities to Revitalize Norwich Program.
The city received funding for the program through a grant from the Department of State’s Brownfield Opportunity Areas Program, and will be using it to conduct a study designed to identify abandoned, vacant or underutilized sites on the east side of the city, in an effort to potentially revitalize them.
The study is restricted to sites located on the east side of Broad Street.
“This is going to concern land use issues, as opposed to social problems,” said City Planning and Development Specialist Todd Dreyer.
Although the grant is part of the Brownfield Opportunity Areas Program, the study will not be restricted to brownfield sites. “We don’t really know if some of these sites are contaminated. Our underlying interest is in determining what is necessary to redevelop these sites. Not all of them will be found to be contaminated,” Dreyer said.
The public meeting will include a powerpoint presentation corresponding to the city’s comprehensive plan. Maps that show the area have been prepared and some sites of potential interest – such as the NYSEG site and some properties on Borden Avenue – have been identified.
“The end product will be a community-based plan for redevelopment of key parcels in the program area,” a press release from the city states. The program is designed to: Foster the redevelopment and reuse of brownfields or other underutilized land, provide an improved business environment, remove uncertainties that often hinder redevelopment, improve the environmental quality, build relationships with other state and local agencies and increase competitiveness for future grant funding.
“This public meeting is crucial to the development of a community-based plan, and will elicit resident and stakeholder goals, objectives and visions for the future of Norwich,” the press release states.
For more information about the meeting, contact Dreyer at 334-1229.
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