[CPEO-IRF] Athens Navy School (GA) - editorial

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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.

...

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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