[CPEO-IRF] Cecil Field (FL) - Lands to Parks

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

CECIL FIELD: Clay County property is crucial

Opinion, TRACEY I. ARPEN JR.
The Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville, FL)
November 1, 2006

As one of the attorneys representing the city in the recent Cecil Field 
referendum litigation and as head of the Office of General Counsel's 
Land Use and Environmental Law Department, I am compelled to correct 
misinformation being disseminated by Vote Jacksonville, proponents of 
the referendum.

Specifically, Vote Jacksonville claims that the Clay County portion of 
Cecil Field was not really part of Cecil Field because it was conveyed 
to Clay County by the Department of the Interior.

...

First, the deed conveying the property from the Department of the 
Interior to Clay County under the federal Lands to Parks Program 
specifically describes it as "the Clay County portion of the naval air 
station, Cecil Field."

...

For the entire column, see
http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/110106/opl_5859656.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
http://www.cpeo.org
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