Measuring Brownfield Program Performance in New York City Daniel C. Walsh Ph.D. NYC Mayor’s Office April 5, 2011

PlaNYC: A Greener, Greater New York NYC’s Sustainability Plan for 21 st Century (2007)  Chapters Housing Open Space  Brownfields Water Quality Water Supply Transportation: Repair Transportation: Congestion Air Quality Energy Climate Change

NYC Brownfield Cleanup program Brownfield Incentive Grant (BIG) program Green Property Certification program Searchable Property Environmental Electronic Database (SPEED) Financial Assistance Search Tool (FAST) Community Brownfield Planning Districts Community Brownfield Planning Grants Citizen Participation program Green Remediation program Green Remediation Audit Grants Brownfield Education program BrownfieldWORKS! green job training Vest-Pocket Parks program Phase 1 Gratis program Pro Bono Environmental Expert Referral program* Pro Bono Community Counseling program* Big Apple Brownfield Award program* Brownfield Scholarships and Internships* *Programs of the NYC Brownfield Partnership NYC Brownfield Programs

Program feature Data collection method Metric Goal Summary

Program Feature NYC Brownfield Cleanup Program Data Collection Method Project Questionairre Metric Development statistics Development cost Square footage for: – Retail – Housing – Open space Job creation Goal Model program performance Measurements for NYC Brownfields

Program Feature NYC Brownfield Cleanup program NYC BIG Grant program Data Collection Method Project tracking Metric (variable) – Tax lots cleaned up – Acres cleaned up – Grant awards allocated – Inspections – Complaints Goal Quantify performance Measurements for NYC Brownfields

Program Feature NYC Brownfield Cleanup program NYC BIG Grant program Data Collection Method Modeling of return on investment Metric – Sales tax revenue – Income tax revenue – Property tax revenue – City grant investment Goal Quantify return to city on investment Justify increased investment – staff, financial incentives Measurements for NYC Brownfields

Program Feature NYC Brownfield Cleanup program NYC BIG Grant program Data Collection Method Project tracking Metric Elapsed time, days – Enrollment – Approval of cleanup plan – Delivery of grant award Goal Improve performance Identify pinch-points Measurements for NYC Brownfields

Program Feature NYC Brownfield Cleanup program NYC BIG Grant program Data Collection Method Exit interviews Metric Enrollee satisfaction quotient Goal Improve performance Identify new ideas for management Measurements for NYC Brownfields

Program Feature Green Remediation Data Collection Method Project reporting by enrollee Metric (variable) Recycled materials used for backfill (tons) Virgin resource consumption avoided (tons) Trees planted Goal Quantify green remediation performance Encourage more green remediation Measurements for NYC Brownfields

Program Feature SPEED: Real Estate Search Engine Data Collection Method Automated online counter Metric Application hits Total users Goal Identify usage Measurements for NYC Brownfields

Technical Assistance New York City Searchable Property Environmental E-Database Real estate search engine Online, GIS application Database for all NYC properties Government environmental dbases Historical maps; aerial photographs Phase 1 data for 3,150 vacant commercial & industrial

Coming soon EPIC: Environmental Property Information Center – Automated online program navigation – Automate data collection, analysis &reporting – Applications; submittals; tracking; communications

14 Daniel C Walsh OER Director (212) Mayor’s Office of Environmental Remediation 253 Broadway, 14th Floor New York, NY (212) For further information Questions?

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Program Feature N Data Collection Method P Metric E Goal S Measurements for NYC Brownfields