[CPEO-IRF] Brunswick (ME) options

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Options eyed for land at air base 

By DENNIS HOEY
Portland Press Herald (ME)
January 19, 2006

BRUNSWICK - Brunswick has no legal authority to force the U.S. Navy to
return land that it seized 60 years ago to create an air base, a legal
expert said Wednesday, but the town could rezone the land as open space
to protect the original Town Commons. James T. Kilbreth, an attorney
with Verrill and Dana in Portland, told the Local Redevelopment
Authority that the eminent domain taking of more than 700 acres to
create the Brunswick Naval Air Station did not include a reversionary
clause. That means the federal government has no legal obligation to
give the land back to the town.

Authority members, including Chairman Martin Wilk, said they would
consider recommending that some of that land be rezoned once the air
base closes.

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For the entire article, see
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/coast/060119bnas.shtml

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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>
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