[CPEO-IRF] Concord (CA) "bombshell"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy may not give Concord Naval Weapons Station to city

By Tanya Rose
CONTRA COSTA TIMES (CA)
November 14, 2006

CONCORD - Concord officials learned today that the U.S. Navy, which had 
promised to let the city plan future uses on the 5,100-acre Concord 
Naval Weapons Station, is considering selling the entire chunk of land 
to Shaw Environmental, according to a letter delivered to Concord City 
Hall on Monday.

If that happens, city officials fear Concord residents and leaders would 
not have a say in how the land is developed -- the bids were supposed to 
come at the end of a multi-phase process, and only if that's how the 
Navy decided to dispose of the land. If this sale goes through, it would 
circumvent the entire planning process, said Concord City Manager Lydia 
Du Borg.

"The Department of the Navy received an unsolicited proposal from an 
entity interested in acquiring the inland area of the former Naval 
Weapons Station . . . in exchange for . . . construction services," the 
letter said.

...

For the entire article and a copy of the Navy letter, see
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/16011900.htm

--
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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