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CCLR
Mission |
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The Center for Creative Land Recycling
(CCLR or "see clear") is a nonprofit organization
that repairs fractured communities and discourages urban
sprawl through creative private, public, and nonprofit
partnerships. Our work is accomplished through training,
technical assistance, small grants, and loans for communities
who are attempting to turn around vacant or environmentally
distressed properties. |
The Center for Creative Land Recycling (CCLR or "see clear")
is a nonprofit organization focused on creating sustainable
communities by identifying and implementing responsible patterns
of land use and development. Our mission is to encourage and
facilitate land recycling in ways that revitalize urban areas,
discourage urban sprawl, and conserve greenspace. CCLR was founded
in 1996 as a project of The Trust for Public Land (TPL), a national,
nonprofit land conservation organization with seed funding from
The James Irvine Foundation. CCLR became an independent 501(c)(3)
organization in 1999. CCLR promotes the reuse and recycling
of previously developed and passed-over land and buildings in
both urban and rural areas, with a focus on environmentally
distressed properties, or what are more commonly known as brownfields.
CCLR accomplishes its work through the following programs:
Workshops
Recycling abandoned under-utilized properties ("brownfields")
requires specific knowledge and skills in order to manage contaminant
issues. CCLR offers intensive, one-day seminars and special
workshops for project managers and stakeholders who are involved
in redeveloping brownfields. CCLR developed its training program
after documenting a clear community need for technical, regulatory,
and financial information on managing the environmental challenges
of redevelopment projects. Our practical, interactive workshops
provide the tools, techniques, and resources required for managing
the redevelopment of environmentally challenged properties.
Grant & Loan Program
CCLR’s CALReUSE Grant and Loan Funds are designed to assist community brownfield developers with financing the assessment and cleanup of properties that would have been passed over without the assistance.
Project Learning
Program
CCLR's Project Learning Program (PLP) offers financial and technical assistance to nonprofit developers and municipalities for brownfield redevelopment projects. The objectives of PLP are to study the conditions that contribute to the abandonment and under-use of brownfields in under-served communities and to develop approaches and solutions that can be applied to help bring other brownfield redevelopment projects to completion.
Policy
& Practices
CCLR's experience with brownfield projects informs policy research
and advocacy of reforms. CCLR promotes reform of state and local
land use and development policies to help "level the playing
field" between brownfields and greenfields (undeveloped areas
at the outskirts of metropolitan regions). The goal is to make
land recycling an accepted, economically feasible pattern of
development.
Consulting
CCLR offers fee-for-service consulting and technical assistance
in support of land recycling and brownfield redevelopment efforts
for a range of diverse groups. Clients typically include municipalities,
redevelopment agencies, nonprofit organizations, community groups,
community development corporations (CDCs), and affordable housing
developers. CCLR serves as a trusted advisor, facilitator, and
project manager focusing on the environmental components of
brownfield redevelopment.
Research
The mission of CCLR's research program is to provide a scientific
foundation to support progressive brownfield policy initiatives
on both state and federal levels. Our research projects seek
to answer some of the toughest questions in the field, including,
"How clean is clean?"
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