(E) designation

An (E) designation is an environmental requirement mapped onto a specific lot through a zoning action — for hazardous materials, air quality, or noise. It typically originates in environmental review: where a rezoning enables development on lots with suspected contamination or exposure concerns, the designation ensures testing and any needed measures happen before that development proceeds.

The designation is durable and lot-specific: it sits on the property until satisfied through the Office of Environmental Remediation's processes, and it binds whoever develops the lot, whenever. For analysis, an (E) on a lot is neither a condemnation nor a formality — it is a recorded flag that a past public review expected environmental work here, with cost and schedule implications that belong in any development pro forma.