Wisconsin Waterfront Revitalization Conference

Overview
The Great Lakes Commission (GLC) has launched a series of state policy roundtables to promote linkages between brownfields redevelopment and greenfields protection. In Wisconsin , the GLC is leading the effort to develop and conduct an educational/outreach workshop for local officials and planners to enhance waterfront revitalization. This workshop will take place in a waterfrontl community in April 2005. A Steering Committee has been formed with representatives from a variety of Wisconsin state agencies and stakeholders to guide the planning of the workshop. The methods and products of this workshop may be used by the state to conduct future workshops in other waterfront communities in the state.

Goal

Improve local coastal community awareness and use of existing state and federal programs available to assist with community and waterfront revitalization

Objective 1

Maximize use of existing programs geared toward urban redevelopment; reinvestment in existing communities

Objective 2

Maximize use of existing programs designed to protect open space and other natural features

Objective 3

Maximize linkages between the two

Background on Great Lakes Commission Policy Roundtable Series

In August 2001, the GLC released a report entitled Linking Brownfields Redevelopment and Greenfields Protection for Sustainable Development (PDF) that includes a series of strategies for promoting brownfields revitalization, greenfields protection, and ways to link them for more sustainable land use. State, provincial, and local agency officials and other stakeholder groups from around the Great Lakes participated in the development of these strategies. In October 2001, the GLC adopted a resolution supporting the conduct of policy roundtables to advance these strategies with individual Great Lakes states and provinces.