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DEQ Brownfield Redevelopment Authority Survey 2009

Agency: Environmental Quality

Name of Brownfield Redevelopment Authority

Director

Contact Person

Brownfield Authority Address

Contact Person's Phone Number:

Contact Person's E-mail

1. Frequency of your board meetings

	a. More than once a month
	b. Monthly
	c. less than once a month
	d. Whenever there is a need to meet

2. Have any Brownfield Plans been approved?

	a. Yes
	b. No (If no, please go to #7)

2a. If yes, how many plans/projects?

3 - 1. What is the status of your brownfield projects that have included school tax capture for environmental response activities?

Number of Completed
Number In Progress
Number Cancelled

3 - 2. What is the status of your brownfield projects that have included school tax capture for non-environmental MEGA eligible response activities?

Number Completed
Number In Progress
Number Cancelled

3 - 3. What is the status of your brownfield projects that have received MBT credits?

Number Completed
Number in Progress
Number Cancelled

4. Is the Authority collecting local tax increment revenues only from any of the projects?

	a. Yes
	b. No

4a. If yes, from how many projects?

5. If the Authority is collecting local tax increment revenues only, what are the funds being used for?

Check all that apply

	a. Environmental response activities
	b. Non-environmental activities
	c. Administration of the authority
	d. Deposit to the local site remediation revolving fund
	e. Property acquisition
	f. Other development related activities that would not normally be approved by MDEQ or MEGA

5a. How many environmental response activity projects?

5b. How many non-environmental projects?

6. What is the total amount of private investment generated by your BRA projects through the Brownfield Redevelopment Financing Act incentives (include TIF and tax credit projects)?

	a. Under $200,000	b. Between $200,000 and $1 million
	c. Between $1 million and $5 million	d. Between $5 million and $10 million
	e. Over $10 million	f. Other

6a. If "Other", what amount if known

7. Select the response which best describes the usefulness of the Brownfield Redevelopment Financing Act as an economic development tool?

	a. It is a critical tool that is used to attract business and leverage private investment dollars.
	b. It is a useful tool but has not had a substantial impact on redevelopment in our community.
	c. It is not useful for our community because there are not enough brownfields available to make it worth the effort to run an Authority.
	d. The community has other economic development tools that are adequate to support new projects.

8. If your community keeps track of commercial (retail and office) and industrial (manufacturing, warehousing, etc.) properties, please estimate the number of the properties with structures into the following categories.

                                             Commercial Number              Industrial Number
Occupied:

Vacant & for Lease or sale:

Vacant & and abandoned
or tax reverted:

9. Of the vacant properties in your community, what percentage do you believe are blighted, functionally obsolete, and or contaminated?

                                            Commercial Percentage   Industrial Percentage
Blighted

Functionally Obsolete

Contaminated

Combination of the above

10. Does the community have a comprehensive strategy for brownfield redevelopment?

	a. Yes
	b. No
	c. Developing a strategy

11. If the answer to #10 is Yes or that the community is developing a strategy, what tools will be (are being) used to promote the strategy?

	a. Michigan Business Tax Credits
	b. Local tax capture for eligible activities
	c. School tax capture for eligible activities
	d. Obsolete Property Rehabilitation Act
	e. Downtown Development Authority
	f. State grant/loan (DEQ, Cool Cities, etc.)
	g. Federal grant/loan (EPA, HUD, EDA, etc.)
	h. Acquisition of property by community in order to promote redevelopment
	i. Land Bank acquisitions
	j. Other

11a. If "Other", please describe.

12. What are the largest impediments to redeveloping brownfields in your community?

	a. Poor site locations
	b. Poor infrastructure to the site(s)
	c. Property owners not willing to sell
	d. Availability of other developed properties that are not brownfields
	e. Availability of Greenfield property
	f. Lack of local market demand
	g. Unfamiliarity of real estate professionals in dealing with contaminated properties
	h. Property size limitations
	i. Zoning restrictions
	j. Cost of property acquisition is too high, given the need for financial return on investment
	k. Difficulty financing development projects
	l. Other

12a. If "Other", please describe.

13. What other incentives or programs would be helpful in improving the redevelopment prospects of your brownfield sites?

	a. State funding for cleanups - grants/loans or state managed cleanups
	b. EPA brownfield grants
	c. Simpler environmental regulations
	d. Marketing of site availability
	e. Coordinated planning assistance to determine end uses of brownfield sites
	f. Tax credits to new developers
	g. Assistance to small business owners in purchasing and redeveloping brownfield sites
	h. Other

13a. If "Other", please describe.

14. When looking at ways to fund a Brownfield project, what local incentives do you turn to most often, i.e. Local only tax increment financing, payment in lieu of taxes, low income housing tax credits, tax abatements, etc?

15. By what methods would you like to learn about new legislation or changes to brownfield programs and incentives, and to find out what other BRAs are doing?

	a. Email listserv
	b. Workshops for BRAs
	c. Presentations at other organizational conferences (MEDA, MML, MTA, etc.)
	d. Join a formal BRA organization
	e. Webpage that the DEQ or MEDC hosts with new information and that posts questions from BRAs

16. Please feel free to make additional comments regarding brownfield redevelopment needs in your community.

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