For Local Governments

We have developed a number of tools to support local government efforts to develop their brownfields, encourage others to develop brownfields in their communities or create a brownfield strategy as part of their Official Community Plan. This includes:

• New Guide for Local Governments
• Hotline for local governments
• Resources
• Presentations, training and workshops
• Guidelines, documents and publications
• Revitalization Tax Exemption

Local Government Brownfield Hotline

To support local governments we have developed the Local Government Brownfield Hotline.

Call 1 (877) 787-9730 from Monday to Friday, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM Pacific Time to contact a BC Brownfield Renewal representative to receive the assistance you require.

Contact us about:

• How to develop a brownfield site
• How to develop a community brownfield strategy
• Questions regarding contaminated sites regulations and process for cleaning up sites
• Financial incentives and tax tools for local governments, developers and support professionals
• Requesting a presentation, workshop or training session on brownfield redevelopment in British Columbia.

If you have questions about a specific site in your community, you can help us assist you better by answering some baseline questions about the site and your community. Click here to download the form with instructions. (Word, 0.5 MB)

Resources

We are developing guidelines, documents and publications to meet your needs. Where we do not have British Columbia based materials, we will guide you to helpful materials from elsewhere.

For more information and a list of topics, visit our Resources page.

This information can help guide your activities and answer your questions. Please let us know what other tools would be useful to you so we can ensure that relevant British Columbia materials can be developed.

We will develop tools to assist developers and other support professionals with brownfield redevelopment projects, but we need your input. Below is a list of resources and training opportunities that we can provide. Please let us know what is useful to you so we can ensure that British Columbia-relevant materials can be developed.

Presentations, training & workshops

As part of our efforts to educate and build capacity, we will be posting presentations, workshops and other materials on brownfield topics for viewing and downloading.

Join our mailing list (see signup form on the left) to be notified when new presentations are posted here.

To inquire about a having a presentation, workshop or training delivered, call us at 1-800-787-9730, or email BrownfieldRenewal@gov.bc.ca.

Revitalization Tax Exemption

Did you know that Revitalization Tax Exemptions can be used to encourage brownfield redevelopment with tax exemptions for up to 10 years?

The Community Charter provides all local governments with the ability to offer revitalization tax exemptions. The Ministry of Community Development has published a primer document for local governments on the revitalization tax exemption tool. §226 of the Community Charter, which enables the Revitalization Tax Exemption tool for local governments.

This tax exemption tool can will help encourage brownfield private redevelopment by allowing local governments to offer tax exemptions for up to 10 years on properties meeting certain criteria, of which brownfield redevelopments fall into.

Read Revitalization Tax Exemptions: A Primer on the Provisions in the Community Charter (PDF 55 KB)

For more information on revitalization tax exemptions for revitalization projects, please also see the page on Permissive Tax Exemptions on the Ministry of Community Development's website.

Similar provisions to the Community Charter on revitalization tax exemptions revitalizing brownfield lands are contained in the Vancouver Charter for as they apply to the City of Vancouver.

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