Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A piece of industrial or commercial property that is abandoned or underused and often environmentally contaminated, especially one considered as a potential site for redevelopment.
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Examples
“In future, residential gardens will no longer be classified as 'brownfield' - the same category as urban industrial wasteland.”
“Tesla is now especially interested in moving the planned facility to a "brownfield" - such as an old site for chipmaking in Silicon Valley or land left over from the aeronautics industry in Southern California - that can be rehabilitated and built upon instead, as the intends to finance construction (or at another site, retooling) of the facility favors projects on brownfields (two birds, one stone: environmental cleanup and cleantech development).”
“The entire swath is a "brownfield" - contaminated, but available for redevelopment.”
“Other targeted tax credits marked for phaseout include ones for so-called brownfield redevelopments, battery manufacturers and other businesses.”
The Wall Street Journal: Michigan Wants to Cut Film-Industry Credits
“When it comes to attracting auto plants, cities have a lousy batting average: in the last decade just one in 10 has been built on so-called brownfield urban sites.”
“You read of -- a brownfield is a place almost always in a city where people used to make money and they left and it's now polluted and people can't afford to go in and make money there again.”
“Nick Johnson, deputy chief executive of Urbansplash, one of the key players in the regeneration, calls the brownfield policies "very important".”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“The group, California Coaltion for a Worker's Memorial Day, asked that the electric car company take their time and carefully weigh the consequences of building on what is known as a brownfield, or "cleaned up" toxic site.”
“On Wednesday the Con-Lib coalition will announce its intention to change planning law so that gardens are no longer classified as brownfield land that can be built on, in a move aimed at stopping "garden grabbing" by developers.”
Environment news, comment and analysis from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk
“While seeking to free up the planning process, the Coalition has scrapped moves that allowed back gardens to be classified as brownfield sites and made it easier to build on them.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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bilby Indeed, I noticed that too. Aug 14, 2009
qroqqa transitive use of sprawl! Aug 14, 2009
bilby "There are thousands of brown-field sites in the inner city that could accommodate housing, but as long as they are sprawling the city that is never going to happen."
- Greens MP Greg Barber, quoted in Jason Dowling, Suburbs to squeeze in more houses, theage.com.au, 14 August 2009. Aug 14, 2009
treeseed Brownfields are abandoned, idled, or under-used industrial and commercial facilities where expansion or redevelopment is complicated by real or perceived environmental contaminations.
In city planning, brownfield land (or simply a brownfield) is land previously used for industrial purposes or certain commercial uses that may be contaminated by low concentrations of hazardous waste or pollution and has the potential to be reused once it is cleaned up. Land that is more severely contaminated and has high concentrations of hazardous waste or pollution, such as a Superfund or hazardous waste site, does not fall under the brownfield classification.
In the United Kingdom and Australia, the term applies merely to previously used land.
_Wikipedia Feb 26, 2008