DEPARTMENT: Center City Development and Operations
DEPARTMENT HEAD: John Jacks
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: Citywide
SUBJECT: Environmental Consultant Services for the City's Brownfield Redevelopment Program
SUMMARY:
The Center City Development and Operations (CCDO) Department requests authorization to enter into a one-year on-call professional services agreement, with a one (1) year extension option, with EnSafe Inc., Stearns, Conrad and Schmidt, Consulting Engineers, Inc (dba SCS Engineers), and Terracon Consultants, Inc. to provide environmental consultant services for the City's Brownfield Redevelopment Program.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
A brownfield is a property whose expansion, redevelopment, or reuse may be complicated by the possibility of environmental contamination. These sites are usually abandoned, vacant, or underutilized properties. Examples can include abandoned gas stations, dry cleaning facilities, junkyards, old car dealerships, abandoned factories, and other potentially contaminated properties. As brownfield sites remain abandoned and unmarketable, they increase inner city blight, decrease property values, hurt local economies, and can threaten the environment, community, and human health. Brownfield sites present unique development challenges that require a creative and multifaceted approach to address. As such, the City of San Antonio is able to address these issues through the Brownfield Redevelopment Program as a tool for redevelopment of these complex sites. Currently, the program conducts site assessments for private property owners at little to no charge and will be seeking grant funds for cleanup in coming years, once a need is demonstrated.
The City has been involved in brownfield assessment and redevelopment efforts over the past two decades through various programs and funding sources including grants from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded in 1999, 2004, and 2015 to assess potential brownfield sites in ...
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