Brownfields Mapping Application Overview

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Brownfields Mapping ApplicationOverview
City of Atlanta Bureau of Planning Mactec
Engineering EPA US Army Corps of Engineers
Contact Michele McIntosh-Ross, Senior Urban
PlannerCity of Atlanta, Bureau of
Planning404-330-6786 mmcintosh_at_atlantaga.gov
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Overview

• City of Atlanta Brownfield Program
• GIS mapping application for sharing brownfield
  information
• BeltLine

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What is a Brownfield

• abandoned, idled and underutilized - usually
  industrial and commercial facilities where their
  reuse and/or redevelopment is burdened by real or
  perceived environmental contamination.
• Areas where there are brownfields pose a threat
  to the community in terms of safety, health and
  future prosperity.
• These sites represent economically unproductive
  real estate that produces negative returns since
  the presence of these sites leads to
  disinvestment throughout the community.
• Brownfield sites are especially difficult to
  redevelop into a productive use because of the
  risk of environmental contamination, the extra
  cost of corrective action (clean-up or caps) and
  legal ramifications that can arise.

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What is the City of Atlantas Brownfield Program?

• The City of Atlanta Sustainable Brownfields
  Redevelopment Program is a program administered
  through the Bureau of Planning Garnett Brown
  and Michele McIntosh-Ross
• Started in the 1990s and evolved
• Seeks grants from various funding sources
  including EPA
• The current project is an EPA funded project to
  identify/assess and produce a geographic database
  of brownfield sites citywide.
• This will allow the city to leverage its efforts
  by creating the incentive for future
  redevelopment
• The Program is ongoing we will continue to seek
  funding for various initiatives with regards to
  brownfield redevelopment within the City

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A geographic database of brownfield sites
citywide.

• Geographic database (spatial datasets) list of
  sites tied to location information which can be
  presented on a map
• GIS Geographic Information Systems is what is
  used to create and present the geographic
  database
• A list of brownfield sites and their locations
  that can be easily mapped is invaluable
• Foundation for redevelopment programs
• Increased accessibility to potential developers
  community residents
• Community awareness

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GIS Application Background

• Agencies such as USGS, ADEM, EPA, Regional
  Planning of Greater Birmingham, and USACE worked
  jointly to create a system that would organize
  and distribute spatial datasets (geographic
  database) related to the current Brownfields
  project.
• The model that was created (web-based GIS) and
  successfully implemented in the greater
  Birmingham as was tweeked and used for the City
  of Atlanta
• May, 2007 the USACE worked at City Hall with our
  Planning/GIS and IT departments to implement the
  system
• Data entry and testing are ongoing

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GIS Application Overview Web-Based Brownfields
GIS

• Maps available to the public online
• vary effective data sharing tool
• easily learned
• widely accessible
• can be used by all stakeholder groups to collect
  and compare a wide range of data and
  redevelopment options
• Users can see the location of a brownfield on a
  map alongside other data such as transportation
  networks, central business districts, residential
  developments, demographic and economic data

• Online Mapping Interface
• No Software Required! Just an Internet
  Connection.
• Allows users to zoom in, out, pan, query,
  identify, print maps, etc.
• The management of the project is also web-based
• Authorized users can edit records, upload new
  sites online
• Only one database exists. Data updates and
  uploaded documents are in real-time making all
  new entries immediately available to users.

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How is this application used?

• Utilizes a range of spatial and attribute data,
  both historic and current to display and show
  comparisons
• Sharing of data
• Tracking and inventorying Brownfields
• Promoting revitalized sites to potential
  businesses
• Mapping and site location
• Site review
• Environmental review
• To manage a multi-phased, multi-stakeholder
  redevelopment project

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Brownfields Demo
Online Application
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Renew Atlanta Land Revitalization and Reuse
Database
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Renew Atlanta Land Revitalization and Reuse
Database
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Renew Atlanta Land Revitalization and Reuse
Database
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Renew Atlanta Land Revitalization and Reuse
Database
Authorized users can supply the necessary
credentials to receive write access to the
database.
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Printer Friendly results.
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Renew Atlanta Land Revitalization and Reuse
Database
A Printer Friendly Page option provides the
record information in the same format as the EPA
Property Profile Form.
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Renew Atlanta Land Revitalization and Reuse
Database
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Renew Atlanta Land Revitalization and Reuse
Database
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TheBeltLine
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Land UseRedevelopmentRecommendations
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Brownfields
Per Phase I Assessments
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Atlanta Sustainable Brownfield Redevelopment
Project - database

• This database promotes the concept of a single
  point of data entry and data access through a
  centralized database
• User-friendly interface empowers individuals to
  populate and update the database
• The mapping interface provides a spatial
  references for property locations and analysis.

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• City of Atlanta Brownfield web page
• http//www.atlantaga.gov/government/planning/brown
  fields.aspx
• Link to live map due fall 2007
• USACE map room website
• http//rsm.sam.usace.army.mil/maproom/index.asp?cu
  stomerOPJ
• Available now

Contact Garnett Brown 404-330-6724
gbrown_at_atlantaga.govMichele McIntosh-Ross
404-330-6786 mmcintosh_at_atlantaga.gov