Project Description
April, 2019
Reactivating Cornwall: A Closer Look at Gas Station Brownfields
This report was prepared by third-year Ryerson University students enrolled in PLG 620: Advanced Planning Studio I at the School of Urban and Regional Planning. The purpose of this report is to develop an approach for the Planning, Development, and Recreation Division of the City of Cornwall to prioritize former gas station sites within their brownfield inventory. By applying a context-based selection criterion, and proposed potential concepts for a leave-as is use, beatification use, interim use, and redevelopment, the brownfield with the greatest development potential can be targeted. Communities across the province have been left with the responsibility of discovering innovative ways to manage their abundance of abandoned developments, as the anticipated time and resources required for remediation are not always reliable due to unforeseen contamination.