[CPEO-BIF] Maryland military job growth

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

[This is the type of article I normally only send to CPEO's Installation 
Reuse Forum, focused on military base realignment and closure (BRAC), 
but I think it's significant because Maryland still has time to direct 
some of its anticipated military population growth to depopulated areas 
of existing urban centers, primarily the city of Baltimore. Brownfields 
planning, such as the projects centered around Johns Hopkins University, 
could revitalize neighborhoods filled with abandoned but recoverable 
housing stock, making it possible for the new arrivals to live in 
established communities, not just new sprawl. - LS]

Region readies for job influx
New numbers dwarf BRAC estimates; officials seek ways to deal with impact

By Phillip McGowan
Baltimore Sun (MD)
June 29, 2007

Predicting that new employees at an expanding Fort Meade will settle as 
far away as Carroll County and the Eastern Shore, senior government 
officials from six counties have formed a regional bloc to measure the 
impact and secure funding for roads, schools and mass transit.

At the first meeting of the Fort Meade growth management committee 
Wednesday at Anne Arundel Community College in Arnold, representatives 
from across the Baltimore region were presented with growth figures that 
dwarfed previous state estimates for job creation.

The Army post's expansion due to the base realignment and closure 
process, known as BRAC, and other factors could generate 61,000 jobs and 
38,500 households throughout the region, according to the numbers 
released at Wednesday's meeting. The committee's numbers do not have a 
timeline.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/annearundel/bal-ar.brac29jun29,0,1069585.story?coll=bal-local-arundel


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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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