2006 CPEO Installation Reuse Forum Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 3 Mar 2006 16:41:33 -0000
Reply: cpeo-irf
Subject: [CPEO-IRF] Concord Naval Weapons Station (CA) carve-out
 
Military stakes claim to station

By Ryan Huff
CONTRA COSTA TIMES (CA)
March 3, 2006	

CONCORD - Military officials want to take three bites out of prime Concord Naval Weapons Station real estate that city officials hope to develop.

If that happens, Concord might have to cut in half its 18-hole Diablo Creek Golf Course and scale back its development plans for the recently closed military base.

For various military purposes, the Defense Department and Coast Guard want to hold on to the nearly 400 acres that either straddles Highway 4 or is within walking distance of the North Concord/Martinez BART station. Such a grab would subtract 15 percent of the land the city wants to develop.

Concord leaders say those properties are crucial to their plans for a high-density transit village and businesses along the freeway.

But the city has no power to stop the military because the federal government owns the 5,170-acre inland part of the base and can decide what it wants to keep before the city can dream how to reuse it.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/14007408.htm

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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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