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North Bend explores Brownfield-focused land bank; staff to solicit board candidates after statute-required wording change
Summary
City staff briefed council on an enabling ordinance to form a Brownfield land bank to acquire and remediate contaminated or distressed properties for housing and economic development. A state statutory wrinkle requires initial board members and term lengths to be named in the ordinance; staff will solicit candidates and return a modified enabling ordinance for council action.
City Manager briefed the North Bend City Council on Oct. 27 on the city’s multi-year effort to create a land bank under state Brownfield enabling legislation to take contaminated or distressed properties off the city’s books and pursue remediation and housing reuse.
The manager said the land bank’s principal purpose is to remove liability from the city while leveraging state and…
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