[CPEO-IRF] Selfridge Air National Guard Base U.S. Army Garrison (MI)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Park may replace military housing

Chesterfield Township considers new uses for 103-acre windfall from 
scaled-back Selfridge.

Edward L. Cardenas
The Detroit News
April 5, 2006

CHESTERFIELD TOWNSHIP -- A large tract of land in the heart of 
Chesterfield Township that is home to hundreds of military housing units 
may become parkland and the site of a new library in coming years.

The Sebille Manor site is part of the Selfridge Air National Guard Base 
U.S. Army Garrison that was closed last year by the federal Base Closure 
and Realignment Commission.

For more than 50 years, military personnel from Selfridge and all the 
armed forces who work in Metro Detroit and Port Huron lived in the 
one-story, Cold War-era housing.

But with the anticipated closure by as early December 2006, residents 
are moving out and community leaders are preparing to change the 
property from federal to local government use.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060405/METRO03/604050363/1014/METRO

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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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