[CPEO-IRF] New town at Ft. Devens (MA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Ayer's criteria for Devens disposition readied for submission to DDEB

By C. David Gordon  
Ayer Public Spirit  (MA)
May 6, 2005 

AYER -- The selectmen have completed their final review of Ayer's list
of what needs to be put in place if Devens is to become a new town or if
jurisdiction of a portion or all of Devens reverts to Ayer. The document
will be submitted to the Devens Disposition Executive Board (DDEB). 

The DDEB has requested that all six so-called stakeholders -- those with
a direct concern about the destiny of Devens -- consider what needs to
be in place to be ready for either Devens disposition scenario. The DDEB
has the monumental task of pulling together the pros and cons of either
scenario and coming up with whichever scenario makes the most sense.
Once this best disposition option is worked out, the stakeholders can
vote to approve it and, with approval, send it to the Legislature to be
made into law.

The stakeholders are the people in the three towns from which Devens
land had been taken to form Fort Devens (Ayer, Harvard and Shirley),
Devens residents, MassDevelopment and the Devens Enterprise Commission.

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For the entire article, see http://www.ayerpublicspirit.com/Stories/0,1413,110~5678~2855429,00.html

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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
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org
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