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5. The City has enrolled the Site in Indiana's VRP (#6020803) and is currently preparing a Remediation Work Plan. Indiana's VRP provides risk-based cleanup standards that address public health during and upon completion of the redevelopment process. The City has held meetings with the Indiana Department of Environmental Management to obtain assistance with the technical approach to cleanup and redevelopment of the Site. The City's Brownfield Team, which includes Water Department representatives in their membership, has periodic meetings that include strategies to identify, and address risks related to the Site. C. Reuse of Existing Infrastructure 1: The redevelopment of the site will reuse existing. infrastructure in "any waywfeasible: However, in some instances utilities such as sewer1mes, water lines, and roadways'are not configured appropriately or have insufficient"capacity io-serve redeveloped properties as large as those in this project. New roadways within the former. Studebaker property will be the primary investment in new infrastructure "made during'this project. However, the other utilities such as gas, electric, water,�sewer and fiber optic will" need to be reconfigured within the site boundaries. With.the "demolition of the buildings on the site will come the need to realign the infrastructure to betterineet the needs of the new industrial park. The plan for the infrastructure calls' for`the continuance and extension of the City's existing utility system into'the site, where themerivork,formerly stopped at the property line. 2. The City has made it a priority to reuse existing "utilities`and infrastructure to both save costs and associated materials. The storm and sanitary sewers that serve the site will continue to do so. However, the lines that are contained within "the site boundaries will be demolished and replaced with linesthat are configured for the new parcel layout instead of the former'".Studebaker building"layout:"The sewer mains that serve the site have sufficient cap acity;forlght industrial development. Incoming utilities such as electric, gas, water and fiber optic, lines also have, sufficient capacity to serve the proposed 82 -acre .light industrial park. In fact, an existing electrical substation is located in the center of the complex, and it will remain in place to provide electrical capacity for the new industrial park.'_, D. Greenspace/Open"Space 1. Brownfield redevelopment is, inherently sympathetic toward open space preservation. By redeveloping propertywithin the city, open space on the edges of the urbanized area can be saved. By limiting this greenfield development we further the stewardship of our natural environment and slow down the pace of urban sprawl. When development occurs within the older parts of the City instead of on the periphery the community hits two birds with one stone. Underutilized property is revitalized, while existing green space on the city's edge goes undisturbed. -7-