2006 CPEO Installation Reuse Forum Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 23 May 2006 15:45:24 -0000
Reply: cpeo-irf
Subject: [CPEO-IRF] Athens Navy School (GA) - editorial
 
Much reflection needed on future of Navy school

Editorial
Athens Banner-Herald (GA)
May 23, 2006

A federal law requiring that the issue of homelessness be taken into account when deciding on the future of abandoned military facilities will require careful thought on the part of all involved in charting the future of the U.S. Navy Supply Corps School.

The school, on a 58-acre site on Prince Avenue, will be shuttered in 2010, as its functions are moved to a Rhode Island facility. The school was targeted for closure last year by the federal Base Closure and Realignment Commission.

As plans are made for reuse of the NSCS campus, the Navy School Local Redevelopment Authority - a group of 16 local officials and residents - and the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development will make the ultimate decision as to how the provisions of the Redevelopment Act are implemented. The Redevelopment Act is the federal law mandating that homelessness be addressed when a closed military facility is retooled.

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For the entire editorial, see
http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/052306/opinion_20060523032.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> http://www.cpeo.org


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