[CPEO-IRF] Ingleside (TX) planning panel

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Port picks planning panel for Ingleside

Goal is to decide what to do after Navy leaves

By Fanny S. Chirinos
Corpus Christi Caller-Times (TX)
January 11, 2006


The port commission assembled a panel of elected and business leaders 
from two counties to help decide how to redevelop Naval Station 
Ingleside after the Navy leaves.

The port's action Tuesday did not end a dispute over the Nueces County 
Commissioners Court's quest to be declared the local redevelopment 
authority for the base. A local redevelopment authority, or LRA, would 
be a gatekeeper for potentially millions of dollars in federal funding 
for planning and other base-redevelopment functions. Port and San 
Patricio County officials have said there's no need for Nueces County to 
pursue LRA status because the port has reversionary rights to most of 
the base land. Port Commissioner Kenneth Berry was absent.

The committee appointed by the port Tuesday includes the county judges 
from both counties and other key officials. The group, named the Coastal 
Bend Redevelopment Planning Committee, and its 11-member executive 
council are the first of many steps in the long process that began when 
the decision to close the base became final Nov. 8, said Greg Brubek, 
the port's deputy director of engineering.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.caller.com/ccct/local_news/article/0,1641,CCCT_811_4379679,00.html

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