Property Details for SFC Garden

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Property Location
Property Progress
CAs Associated with this Property
Assessment Activities at this Property
Climate Adaption and Mitigation - Planning or Assessment
Contaminants and Media
Cleanup Activities
Climate Adaption and Mitigation - Demolition or Cleanup
Institutional & Engineering Controls
Redevelopment and Other Leveraged Accomplishments
Climate Adaption and Mitigation - Redevelopment
Additional Property Attributes

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Property Owner

Government

ACRES Property ID

236959

Property Address

2907 E. Martin Luther King Blvd. AUSTIN, TX 78702

Size

7.91

Parcel Numbers

Latitude/Longitude

30.280652 / -97.708414

Congressional District

Property Contact

Williams, Denise

Williams.Denise@epa.gov

214-665-9749

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Property Location

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Property Progress

Assessment

Clean Up

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Ready for Anticipated Use

Redevelopment Underway

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CAs Associated with this Property

CA Name	CA #	State	Type	Announcement Year
Austin, City of	BF01F37601	TX	Assessment	2017

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Assessment Activities at this Property

Activity	EPA Funding	Start Date	Completion Date	CA	Accomplishment Counted?	Counted When?
Phase II Environmental Assessment	$30,462.00	03/12/2018	05/25/2018	Austin, City of	Y	FY19

Is Cleanup Necessary? No
EPA Assessment Funding: $30,462.00
Leveraged Funding:
Total Funding: $30,462.00

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Climate Adaption and Mitigation - Planning or Assessment

Selected Strategy(ies)	Explanatory Text
Adoption of building codes that consider impacts from extreme weather events and natural disasters	Building codes can encourage implementation of mitigation and adaptation techniques for extreme weather events and natural disasters. Codes may require that infrastructure be planned and built to avoid or minimize future damage or costly repairs from increased frequency and intensity of flooding, drought, wildfires, and other projected extreme weather/disaster events. Codes may also lead to energy savings for commercial and residential buildings by specifying minimum requirements for building components such as insulation, water use, heating and cooling systems, lighting, windows, and ventilation systems. Effective building code requirements may vary regionally due to differences in natural hazards.

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Adoption of building codes that consider impacts from extreme weather events and natural disasters

Building codes can encourage implementation of mitigation and adaptation techniques for extreme weather events and natural disasters. Codes may require that infrastructure be planned and built to avoid or minimize future damage or costly repairs from increased frequency and intensity of flooding, drought, wildfires, and other projected extreme weather/disaster events. Codes may also lead to energy savings for commercial and residential buildings by specifying minimum requirements for building components such as insulation, water use, heating and cooling systems, lighting, windows, and ventilation systems. Effective building code requirements may vary regionally due to differences in natural hazards.

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Contaminants and Media

Contaminant Found

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Media Affected

Unknown

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Cleanup Activities

There are no current cleanup activities.

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Climate Adaption and Mitigation - Demolition or Cleanup

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Sustainable land management practices	Sustainable land management practices capitalize on a "whole-site" approach that accelerates cleanup while returning a site to its natural conditions. Practices focus on opportunities to preserve natural land features, maintain open space, sequester carbon, enhance biodiversity, increase wildlife habitat, and minimize surface and subsurface disturbance. Sustainable land management practices at a brownfields site may include minimizing unnecessary soil and habitat disturbance or destruction; use of native species to support habitat; and onsite remediation approaches such as bioremediation and/or phytoremediation.

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Sustainable land management practices

Sustainable land management practices capitalize on a "whole-site" approach that accelerates cleanup while returning a site to its natural conditions. Practices focus on opportunities to preserve natural land features, maintain open space, sequester carbon, enhance biodiversity, increase wildlife habitat, and minimize surface and subsurface disturbance. Sustainable land management practices at a brownfields site may include minimizing unnecessary soil and habitat disturbance or destruction; use of native species to support habitat; and onsite remediation approaches such as bioremediation and/or phytoremediation.

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Institutional and Engineering Controls

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Redevelopment and Other Leveraged Accomplishments

There are no current redevelopment activities.

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Climate Adaption and Mitigation - Redevelopment

Selected Strategy(ies)	Explanatory Text
Install green infrastructure	Green infrastructure includes practices and features to reduce the burden of storm events on local water infrastructure. Examples include green roofs, downspout disconnection, urban tree canopies, rainwater harvesting, rain gardens, planter boxes, green parking (permeable pavement), urban agriculture, and community open space.
Incorporate and encourage multi-modal transit opportunities in redevelopment activities	Planning, designing and building streets that enable access for all users, including pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists and transit riders. Brownfield redevelopment projects can incorporate sidewalks in their plans to allow for pedestrian traffic, outdoor public spaces to encourage community gatherings, and bicycle parking, bike share rentals, and bike trails to encourage biking throughout the community.

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Install green infrastructure

Green infrastructure includes practices and features to reduce the burden of storm events on local water infrastructure. Examples include green roofs, downspout disconnection, urban tree canopies, rainwater harvesting, rain gardens, planter boxes, green parking (permeable pavement), urban agriculture, and community open space.

Incorporate and encourage multi-modal transit opportunities in redevelopment activities

Planning, designing and building streets that enable access for all users, including pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists and transit riders. Brownfield redevelopment projects can incorporate sidewalks in their plans to allow for pedestrian traffic, outdoor public spaces to encourage community gatherings, and bicycle parking, bike share rentals, and bike trails to encourage biking throughout the community.

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Additional Property Attributes

Property Highlights

The Site is a 7 .91-acre tract of land that is currently owned by the City of Austin (COA) and used by the Sustainable Food Center (SFC) as a community garden. The Site contains a greenhouse, tool shed, bee hives, two covered pavilions, wooden gazebo, wood platforms, and raised garden beds. A Phase I Environmental Site Assessment (Phase I ESA) conducted in March 2017 did not find any current, historic, or controlled Recognized Environmental Conditions (RECs) in connection with the Site. However, the 2017 Phase I ESA references a previous Phase I ESA completed in June 2003 that recommended limited surface soil sampling based several RECs such as a onsite concrete plant, surface soil staining and piles of asphaltic material and cement sands. The Sustainable Food Center would like to extend their food production area and include fruit and nut trees.

Former Use: From 1952-1980 the site was used as a materials storage yard for a concrete plant.

Predominant Past Usage

Commercial (7.91)

What types of funding are being used on this property?

Hazardous

State and Tribal Program Information

Date No Further Action Letter Received

Date Letter/Signed Report Received from a Qualified Professional