[Tagging] Landfill undergoing restoration

[Kevin Kenny]

On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 8:13 AM Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I believe the landuse values "greenfield" and "brownfield" are both not
> well chosen and do not fit well within the landuse key in general. Both
> have implications about future constructability (i.e. a legal status)
> rather than something currently observable on the ground (in particular
> greenfields), and they might also conflict with current existing use (e.g.
> a greenfield which is still used as a meadow).
>
> I am not saying it is not recordworthy to distinguish between a green
> field which is just a green field and one where you legally can build (and
> likely will in the future). But it doesn't change the current "use".
> I am also not saying that storing information about publicly known
> contamination is out of scope, but again landuse is not the right key for
> it.
>

The only brownfields I've mapped are ones where active
demolition/remediation is in progress, but no new construction has begun
(and often the specific new use has not been determined). The demolition
work is easy to observe on the ground, and sometimes the former land use is
no longer obvious. There's one near me - a former salvage yard - where I
could now retag the land use as construction, but I'm waiting for better
aerials and/or site access so that I can simply map the apartment complex
that's now being built. For a year or two, it was just signed as 'For sale
or will build to suit' and the obvious activity was hauling away wreckage
and regrading the ground. (And encroaching on the local rail-trail, and
creating a jam in a century-old culvert, flooding part of a town park, but
I digress.)

I've never mapped a greenfield. There are a couple of new subdivisions near
me where I've added address points corresponding to stakes in the ground
advertising the lots for sale, mapped the built model houses, and tagged
the whole thing as a residential area. After all, it is a residential area.
It's just that most of the lots are still vacant.

Off topic: There may be a lot more built in there now. I haven't been there
in a while. The last time I was in there, 'urban camo' (orange safety vest,
construction-worker boots, hardhat, clipboard) was useful in not getting
chased out.  I had a realtor with a suspicious expression follow me in her
car for a short distance, but I just kept alternately using a phone app
(GPS logger, of course) and making notes on the clipboard, and that looked
official enough to her.

-- 
73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin
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