MoreThe EPA on Friday, Feb. 8, 2010, announced three steps to encourage state and local government to make their communities more sustainable by strategically aligning their environmental, transportation and housing investments.
The steps are as follows:
The steps are as follows:
- The creation of a new Office of Sustainable Communities to encourage communities to take an integrated approach in making environmental, housing and transportation decisions.
- A new pilot grant program designed to help three states – New York, Maryland and California – use their clean water funding programs to support efforts to make communities more sustainable.
- A pilot program to clean up and redevelop contaminated sites, known as brownfield sites, in coordination with communities' efforts to develop public transportation and affordable housing. The brownfields pilot program is an interagency partnership between the EPA, The Office of Housing and Urban Development and the Dept. of Transportation. The interagency committee has selected five pilot sites across the country where there is a convergence of public transit and the need for affordable housing. The five sites selected for the Sustainable Communities Partnership Pilots are the Fairmount Line in Boston; the Smart Growth Redevelopment District in Indianapolis; the La Alma/South Lincoln Park neighborhood in Denver; the Riverfront Crossings District in Iowa City, Iowa; and the Westside Affordable Housing Transit-Oriented Development in National City, Calif.
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