RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Environmental Contamination, Brownfields Policy, and Economic Redevelopment in an Industrial Area of Baltimore, Maryland
JF Land Economics
JO Land Econ
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 60
OP 71
DO 10.2307/3146923
VO 78
IS 1
A1 Schoenbaum, Miriam
YR 2002
UL http://le.uwpress.org/content/78/1/60.abstract
AB Recently, many states have passed brownfields legislation to limit the liability of innocent property redevelopers, based on the assumption that pollution systematically affects land use and development. The goal of this study was to examine this assumption. The study area was an industrial area of Baltimore, Maryland, characterized by brownfields and recent economic development. Data from 1963–1999 for brownfield and non-brownfield parcels were collected and compared to identify variations in assessed land value, vacancy, sales, and redevelopment. The absence of a systematic relationship between pollution and land use variables suggests that other factors may also be involved in vacancy and underuse. (R52)