[CPEO-IRF] Ft. Monroe (VA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Red tape could swallow Fort Monroe

Private development at the base would face a slew of bureaucracy and uncertainty.

TERRY SCANLON 
Newport News Daily Press (VA)
June 23 2005

DENVER -- Converting Fort Monroe into a private development could prove
to be a bureaucratic nightmare.

If the base closes, potential legal hurdles would await the city of
Hampton as it navigates state and federal regulations on transferring
the property, cleaning the land, and building within the rules of
historic and environmental regulations.

"It's probably one of the most complex issues you'll ever deal with as a
local government," said Keith Cannady, a chief planner with Hampton who
attended a conference in Denver recently about converting military bases
to private development.

The conference was dominated by private consulting firms that specialize
in various aspects of that, including planning, engineering,
environmental cleanup and insurance on the cost of the cleanup.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-33564sy0jun23,0,7835110.story?coll=dp-headlines-topnews

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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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