www.brownfields.czIURS- institut pro udržitelný rozvoj

sídel o.s.Jiřina Bergatt Jackson

IURS9.9.2010

Visualising and

regenerating brownfields in

CZ

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IURS About IURS

IURS is a non-profit advocacy, research and project implementation organization, which aims are: working to support sustainable land use

development practices, strongly focused on issues of

underused urban land, containment of sprawl and sustainable urban development,

to foster broad coalitions that enhance the competitiveness of accessible and equitable urban development and redevelopment.

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IURS Project BRIBAST

Project BRIBAST http://fast10.vsb.cz/bribast - Brownfields in Baltic States – Lifelong Educational Project was designed to introduce education about brownfields into Baltic states. Project had 7 partners from 4 countries and was financed by the Lifelong Learning Programme. Project BRIBAST was an adaptation of its predecessor, the project

LEPOB http://fast10.vsb.cz/lepob, which originated concepts of these educational materials.

Outcome of BRIBAST project are:Brownfield handbook, Brownfields course and

Teachers notes in English, Lithuanian and Latvian languages.

PARTNERS ARE BEING SOURT TO TRANSFER THE PROJECT TO BALCAN STATES

If interested to partner a new project please contact: barbara.vojvodikova@vsb.cz

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IURSProject CircUse

Many regions are confronted with massive urban sprawl, economic crisis and effects of demographic changes, which are all causing unsustainable land use patterns and have an impacts on competiveness and on climate change.

Circular land use management is an integrative policy and governance approach, philosophy can be expressed with the slogan: “avoid – recycle –compensate“.

Main project outputs are:• Development of an overall strategy towards circular

land use management• Tools and instruments of Circular Land Use

Management• Pilot Projects

12 Partners from 6 countries, project duration 3/2010 – 02/2013,

Project No: 2CE174P4, www.circuse.eu

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IURS Presentation content

CZ BF history and past inventory efforts

Sitting in between chairs and potential offered by the new planning law

Barriers to BF data use and levels of tackling brownfields

Easy and communicative local inventories The process The products

What does data analyses reviel Lead to BF strategy Does inventorying supports BF

reuse? What is there to learn from the CZ

experience? Case study example: Ústí nad Labem

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IURS CZ BF History/1

1997 Impacts of BF begin sensed in a piecemeal manner 2001 Realization of the BF issue, named as a problem

category 2002 First BF projects attempted 2002 First analytical report on BF 2003 First EU know-how transfer projects 2003 Launch of industrial BF remediation program 2003 First BF web source and handbook 2003 National development plan priorities for SF 2004-06 2004 First competent assessment of scope of BF problem 2004 Completion of first major BF developments 2004-6SF priorities spur private interest in finding eligible

BF sites 2005 First research BF programs 2005 Program for communities dealing with army BF 2005 Regional BF data inventories tool available 2006 First attempt for national BF inventory

(CzechInvest) 2006 First BF handbook and course materials for

professionals

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IURS CZ BF history /2

2006 National reference framework priorities for SF 2007-13

2007 New Law - inventory of already urbanized land for reuse

2007 SF and their programs priorities 2007 Priv. dev. boom of regional property including BF 2007 CzechInvest BF expertise collapse 2008 PPP partnership concepts introduced 2008 NB strategy fails to obtain wider support 2008 SF 2007-13 financed BF projects commence 2008 BF included in the ORP scale planning support GIS

layers 2009 Recession effects most of commercial BF s projects 2009 JESSICA contract signed between EIB and Ostrava

region 2009 regional and local authorities forecast serious

budget shortfalls, this limits their ability to support public projects

2009 Regional interests commences in data analyses aiding mitigatory regional BF programs

2010 Inclusion of BF in planning documents 2010 Local BF strategies start to emerge 2010 second round of GIS inventorying – for BF no change

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Past inventory efforts

Report from Project Czech Brownfield Regeneration Strategy, CSF, PHARE project lead consultant Parsons Brinckerhoff (2004)

Inventorying tool from project WB04/40 http://www.brownfieldsinfo.cz

City of Brno Inventory http://www2.brno.cz/index.php?nav01=6158

Brownfield database run by the CzechInvest http://www.brownfieldy.cz/,

Brownfield database run by the Zlín region http://mapy.kr-zlinsky.cz/ost/bf/

Brownfield database run by the Liberec region http://www2.kraj-lbc.cz/index.php?page=3531

Brownfield database run by the Ústecký region http://www.regenerace.org/database/U_kraj/search.php

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Sitting in inbetween chairs

BF remediation is a multidisciplinary subject with no single public overall responsibility for solutions.

BF solutions vary and are not easy to transplant, but the principles are.

BF are not an industrial issue, but mainly a social, an economic and a spatial one.

The spatial aspect of BF in CZ took long time to be acknowledged.

The sectoral focus to achieve coordination was attempted several times, but got so far nowhere.

At LA offices there are planning and development departments, but none as as yet has the overall responsibility.

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IURS Potential of the

new planning law

It visualised BF in planning (previously brownfields was not know category in planning),

it has given qualified planners the right to stigmatised properties as a BF,

it cleared out the BF data publicity issue,

it provided bases for a regular BF inventorying and data update in administrative units called ORP.

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Barriers and solutions to BF data improvements Terminology mixing - solved by subdividing the “Jev4”

into several layers, helping to keep BF separate from other land types determined for redevelopment,

“Communication” to lay persons, and its suitability to share data between planning and strategic departments - solved by qualitative information added to the listing in the GIS attributes and polygons (photos, assessment of the owner’s ability to improve the property, rough evaluation of likelihood for market uptake of the property est.),

Incompatibility and inconsistency of data - solved by adopting a common methodology and by providing training (focused especially on collection of qualitative criteria and additional attributes in order to avoid subjectivity and inconsistency in classification),

2 year frequency of survey is too expensive and consideration should be given to 4 year bases – amend law

Legal duty to handle BF data in ORPs is not of a sufficient scale – regions need to be “motivated” by a program (aimed on improving the regional interest to coordinate) or possibly by amendment of the law.

GIS skills and costs barriers – can be solved by simplified tools

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Levels of tackling BF

Comunity level – individual BF projects, partnerships, local BF programs, local delivery vehicles

OPR level – detail databases, analyses of data, formulation of local BF policies, work with owners

Regional level – regional BF strategic databases, regional BF mitigatory programs, key BF sites promotion, regional delivery vehicles, education, information

National level - swots from regional databases, policy, programs, tools, legal changes, education, information exchange

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Easy and communicative local

inventoriesData for community use need to be in a suitable, easy access, low skills formats, but they have to satisfy the new law requirements and be suitable for purposes of spatial planning An effective and comparable data

surveys with minimal costs Data formats supporting analysis,

benchmarking and other community development use

Easily accessible outputs allowing local advocacy of BF issue: indicators, printed brownfield cards with photos and locations, graphs and simple maps.

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IURS Easy tools - process

The survey Start up training The fieldwork stage

Expert stage GIS stage Analytical stage Strategy preparation stage Strategy implementation stage

THERE IS A LITTLE POINT OF DATA GATHERING IF THIS DATA

IS NOT USED FOR ANALYSES AND THE ANALYSES DOES NOT

LEAD TO AN ACTION

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Easy tools - indicators

BA indicator 2010 2012 notes

BA1 Number of BF 97(72)*

how many

BA2Area BF cover

429,50ha(204,40ha

)*

What spatial effect they have

BA3∑(ha) regenerated BF from last. survey ∑ BF (ha)

0,54% How effective is the regeneration

BA4 ∑BF (ha) x100∑zastavěného území (ha)

11,7%(5,6)*

How serious is the BF situation in given community

BA5 ∑BF (ha) x 100 ∑zastavitelného území (ha) 68% How large is

GGreenfields competition

BA6∑yearly development increment (ha)x100∑BF (ha)

?

Time ,which it would take to remediate BF, if all development located there

BA7∑BF (ha) x 100∑administrative area (ha)

4,57%(2,17)*

How much is the administrative area effected

* Kalkulace bez předpokládaných brownfieldů

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IURS What analyses reviel

BF data analyses Types, sizes, locations, Ownersip and development patterns Accessibility Development limits Risks patterns Trends Ect.

An overall analyses Key barriers Key issues Key sites Key opportunities Main threats Recommendation and grounds for an

action

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IURS Leed to a BF

strategy Data collection in an analysable

format In depth analyses, which helped to

understand city´s brownfield situation

Public meetings with stakeholders Consultation with political

leadership Close cooperation between the

consultants and the city Strategic development department

Publishing of strategy version on web for commenting

………

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How does inventorying

supports BF reuse? To make national, sectoral or

regional BF help programs, data and its analyses are a must.

Inventorying does tend to „visulalise“ the BF issue. If the incorrectly focused, then the analyses can be misleading and the issue can be missed.

Inventorying efforts tend to drive public aid towards the „hard measures.

For BF reuse the „soft measures! are however more beneficial, as they support development skills and sustainable bankable projects.

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What is there to learn from the CZ

experience? It takes 10-15 years to build up

national expertise in order to: address BF in a coordinated manner adjust legal framework achieve comparative data be able conceive integrated

regeneration programs and other useful tools

spend public money effectively focus research correctly focus education correctly curb Greenfield development and tune

other policies start sharing knowhow and experiences

CZ BF KNOWHOW IS HIGHEST AMIDES THE CEC COUNTRIES, BUT WE STILL DO

NOT HAVE IT RIGHT!

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CASE STUDYÚstí nad Labem

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Key BF locationsTovární

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IURS Key BF locations

Střekov

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IURS Key BF locations

Krásné Březno

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IURS Key BF locations

Neštěmice

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IURS Key BF locations

Předlice

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Analyses Impact of BF size

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Status of BF28

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AnalysesABC BF categorization

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AnalysesApproaches and

policies BF as an issue are identified in the

document „City Development Strategy until 2015“) priority 3.1, Creation of quality urban development (approved 2007)The first proposal for the new local plan (March 2010) is paying not much attention to BF reuse and it is deregulating a vast amount of Greenfield land for development

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City feels powerless because it owns only a few BFCity activities towards BF owners so far brought not much of a positive outcome

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AnalysesMain trends

Location on infrastructure + Environmental quality + Inner city quality improvements + Regional city status + Demography figures + Education attainment - Market - Economic performance - Entrepreneurship - Unemployment -

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Analyses outcomesKey issues

79 brownfields,11.7% of build up area 429ha of brownfields (cc 2.4 ha regen.) At this rate regeneration would take

around 300 years 3 large areas, all with state/state

companies owned land in their midst 22% of city B. land is owned in this form

and there is a little cooperation so far Competition between large brownfield

locations for development activities New proposal for the LP adds to this

another cc 700ha of Greenfields (together cc 1100ha of developable land!)

Low market and competition of other large regional towns

Low proactively of local government No regional partnership, Insufficient and uncoordinated policy No delivery structure Low development skills

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Approaching brownfields in low

market situation1. Partnerships and public sec.

proactivity• Regional partnerships• Stakeholders cooperation • Pro-activity of local government• Creating delivery vehicles

2. Development tools• Integrated development approach especially

for large brownfields areas• Curbing the Greenfields deregulation• Taking brownfields from the regime of

developable land

3. Economic tools• Supporting development of bankable projects• Placing public project onto brownfields • Improving development skills

4. Marketing tools• Improving city image• Marketing development opportunities

5. Mitigation measures• Supporting temporaly use for brownfields• Creating alternative uses for brownfields

(growing of timber, energy plant est.)

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Main goal of the strategy

In 10 years to reduce brownfield land by 100ha (23,28 % reduction), while creating conditions, which enables owners and investors finding new uses for brownfields , so that brownfields stop being a burden and start to bring city an income or other wider benefits.

(100% = 429,5ha)

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IURS Priorities

PRIORITY 1 Exploiting all the legal, formal

and informal tools, which aid brownfields reuse

PRIORITY 2 Active identification of financing

sources and resources with an aim of maximizing a leverage effect

PRIORITY 3 Increase of information flow and

improvement of development skills

PRIORITY 4 Improving quality of life in the

city

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strategy deliverance36

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Preconditions for delivering a stategy

PUBLIC ACCEPTANCE

POLITICAL SUPPORTPARTNERSHIPSPLAN OF ACTIONDELIVERY VEHICLEBUDGETS IN PLACE

TECHNICAL SKILLS AND COMMITMENT

BANKABLE AND FINANCABLE PROJECTS

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Thank you for your attention

Jiřina Bergatt Jackson602 370 176

jjackson@iurs.cz

www.brownfields.cz

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