[CPEO-IRF] Baltimore and Maryland's BRAC-related growth

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Planners add Baltimore to BRAC equation
City's housing and infrastructure might accommodate influx of defense 
workers


By Phillip McGowan
Baltimore Sun
March 14, 2006

As state and local officials focus on ways to house and move thousands 
of defense-sector workers bound for the region, some have begun focusing 
on Baltimore - with its abundance of affordable housing and established 
transportation network - as a way to handle the growth.

Representatives of the counties in and around Fort Meade and Aberdeen 
Proving Ground said at a meeting yesterday that they are taking a 
regional approach to confronting the potential sprawl generated by the 
Pentagon's base realignment and closure process, known as BRAC, which is 
expected to draw 40,000 to 60,000 private- and public-sector jobs to 
Maryland within the next six years.

Although officials have concentrated on the roads, schools and homes 
needed to meet the needs of two heavily affected installations - Fort 
Meade in Anne Arundel County and Aberdeen Proving Ground in Harford 
County - officials are increasingly turning their attention to what 
Baltimore City has to offer.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.brac14mar14,0,790946.story?coll=bal-local-headlines

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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
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