2006 CPEO Installation Reuse Forum Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 13 Dec 2006 07:43:09 -0000
Reply: cpeo-irf
Subject: [CPEO-IRF] Delay at Concord Naval Weapons Station (CA)
 
Concord agrees to weapons station development delay

By Tanya Rose
CONTRA COSTA TIMES (CA)
December 12, 2006

CONCORD - Rep. George Miller, who weeks ago begged the U.S. Navy not to yank planning authority over the shuttered Concord Naval Weapons Station from local leaders, is now asking Concord to support a Navy-requested delay.

What's more, Mayor Mark Peterson announced at Tuesday's City Council meeting that the city has agreed, despite the fact that it will put off the city's planning efforts for one more month.

Miller, whose district includes the base, asked that the city support a 30-day extension on the Navy's "surplusing" of the mothballed base -- or deeming it formally closed and available for development. That decision was supposed to happen Dec. 21, and now it will happen Jan. 22.

That date triggers the city's legal ability to move forward with its next planning and public outreach phases. Until it happens, Concord is in a sort of planning limbo, officials have said in the past.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/breaking_news/16226597.htm

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