[CPEO-IRF] Brunswick (ME) Town Commons

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Council supports effort to reclaim Town Commons
Town joins Rep. Stan Gerzofsky's bid to get DoD to return 1,000 acres at 
no cost.

Darcie Moore
Brunswick Times Record (ME)
July 18, 2006

BRUNSWICK - The Town Council spent a majority of its meeting Monday 
discussing the redevelopment of the Brunswick Naval Air Station property 
and the role the town, a local redevelopment authority and a state 
advisory council play in that process.

One of the first actions the council took was to unanimously adopt a 
resolution supporting an effort led by state Rep. Stan Gerzofsky, 
D-Brunswick, to have the Department of Defense return 1,000 acres to the 
town at no cost to restore the Town Commons to the size it was before 
the base opened in the 1940s.

Councilor Jacqueline Sartoris pointed out that the town is requesting 
property that Brunswick had sold to the federal government because it 
had no choice in the 1940s, but that Brunswick's connection to the 
property extends more than two centuries, "before there was a United 
States of America."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.timesrecord.com/website/main.nsf/news.nsf/0/739294E6418447D5052571AF00577369?Opendocument

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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
http://www.cpeo.org

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