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Public Participation In Brownfield Redevelopment: A Framework For Community Empowerment In Zoning Practices, Jenny J. Tang

Jenny J. Tang

This paper discusses the importance of brownfield redevelopment in the context of the environmental justice movement. It emphasizes that the goals of environmental justice advocates and attorneys should include promoting the interests of the community in order to achieve environmental and procedural equity. This paper argues that the only way to adequately promote these goals is to allow for maximum public participation, which would include community empowerment practices and an eye towards the problems inherent in public participation. Because brownfield remediation provisions and programs rarely provide for adequate public participation, this paper argues that zoning practices can be employed as …