On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 4:41 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com > wrote: > > "brownfield" seems quite misleading as description for a plot formerly > occupied by a house, it would be appropriate for former industrial or > commercial areas with suspected pollution (in case of former industrial and > some kind of commercial use it is very likely that the former use has left > some kind of pollution). The wiki confirms this point of view. >
I've usually heard "brownfield" in a city planning context to be any formerly built property that is left void of any buildings, save possibly for leftover bits of parking lot, driveway or foundation. Often the sad result of a tornado and the resulting cleanup.
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