Effective regulation, property clean-up and redevelopment, parks, the local environment: Each of these is complicated. (And more information about each can be obtained from the CEQ). The redevelopment of contaminated urban properties, for example, involves factors far beyond the remediation of chemical pollution. Urban decline and revitalization depend on the interaction of a large set of social, economic, and environmental questions. As the Council has noted in previous years, the present tax structure favors investment and commercial development in suburban locations, and this factor could be too powerful for any one environmental program to overcome. While the Council stands ready to assist in implementing all of the recommendations in this section, it must conclude with the following:

Urban vitality, economic development, and environmental quality are linked so inherently and inescapably that any effort to address one without the other two will fail the state eventually.