[CPEO-IRF] Ft. Belvoir preferred plan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

BRAC Preferred Plan Ignores Community Input.
Army Museum isolated from other area tourist attractions.

By Chuck Hagee
Mount Vernon Gazette (VA)
August 3, 2006


So much for community input. Nearly every aspect of what community 
leaders had envisioned for Mount Vernon and Lee districts as a result of 
Fort Belvoir's planned growth due to the Base Realignment and Closure 
Report, including the long-sought Army Museum, is not part of the Army's 
"Preferred Site Plan."

Of the anticipated 22,000 additional personnel, military and civilian, 
coming from other locations, only 4,000 are now planned to end up on the 
main post. The rest, approximately 18,000, will be located at the 
Engineer Proving Grounds near Springfield, according to the "preferred" 
plan.

During a media roundtable at Fort Belvoir headquarters building last 
Friday, Installation Commander Col. Brian Lauritzen emphasized that the 
operative word in the just released Department of the Army 
recommendation report was "preferred."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/article.asp?article=69636&paper=69&cat=104

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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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