Michael Goldstein on Last Week's Poll

BROWNFIELD LEGISLATION

Respondents to last week’s Quick Poll regarding brownfield redevelopment incentives, now under consideration by the Florida Legislature, unanimously expressed that the process is still too expensive. Michael Goldstein, an environmental attorney for Akerman Senterfitt in Miami, is a brownfield activist and a founder and past president of Florida’s Brownfields Association. He recently established the Goldstein Brownfields Foundation, which aims to encourage legislators to adopt enhancements to Florida’s brownfield program. Here are his thoughts:

“The redevelopment of brownfields in the state of Florida remains too expensive. It was that way before the passage of the Florida Brownfield Redevelopment Act passed in 1997 and has remained that way. It will continue to be much too expensive and risky even if the proposed legislation passes because it doesn’t go far enough.