City of Gainesville - File #: 090776.

• File #: 090776.
• Version: 2
• Name: Cabot-Koppers Superfund Site - Future Land Use (B)
• Type: Discussion Item
• Status: Passed
• File created: 4/1/2010
• In control: City Commission
• Final action: 4/1/2010
• Title: Cabot-Koppers Superfund Site - Future Land Use (B) This is a referral by the Community Development Committee (CDC) to the City Commission to direct staff to initiate a petition to the Plan Board to change the land use designation of the Cabot-Koppers Superfund site.

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
4/1/2010	2	City Commission	Approved as Recommended	Pass
3/8/2010	1	Community Development Committee	Approved, as shown above
2/18/2010	0	City Commission	Approved as Recommended	Pass

Title

Cabot-Koppers Superfund Site - Future Land Use (B)

This is a referral by the Community Development Committee (CDC) to the City Commission to direct staff to initiate a petition to the Plan Board to change the land use designation of the Cabot-Koppers Superfund site.

Explanation

On March 8, 2010, the Community Development Committee (CDC) held a Special Meeting to consider the future land use on the Cabot-Koppers Superfund site located at 200 NW 23^rd Avenue.   A presentation was made to the CDC by Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) representatives and E², Inc. an EPA consultant retained by the EPA to work with various stakeholders to identify the reasonably anticipated future land uses, and to develop a site reuse strategy to align anticipated uses with remedial design and cleanup activities.

The consultant provided the CDC with an overview of the proposed reuse assessment process and a timeframe for engaging the community and stakeholders in the discussion of future land use and implementation of a reuse framework for future redevelopment associated with the subject property.

Following presentations by EPA, the consultant and citizen input, the Committee deliberated on steps moving forward and determined that a recommendation to the full City Commission to initiate a future land use change to identify an appropriate land use on the subject property on a time schedule that allows the use of the information produced by E², Inc.

Fiscal Note

No fiscal impact.

Recommendation

The City Commission: 1) hear a brief presentation from staff; and, 2) authorize staff to initiate a Petition to the Plan Board to identify and recommend the approporiate future land use(s) on the site emphasizing residential with elements of mixed use or some combination thereof, on a schedule that allows the use of information produced by E2, Inc., the EPA's consultant.