[CPEO-IRF] Concord (CA) ready to plan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Concord to jump into planning as soon as Navy gives go-ahead

By Tanya Rose
CONTRA COSTA TIMES (CA)
February 18, 2007	

City and Navy leaders say the Concord Naval Weapons Station could be 
declared surplus property within three weeks, paving the way for Concord 
to begin a blizzard of public workshops and community planning ventures.

The first public event, planned for March 17 as a "get the facts" 
campaign, will feature base-closure experts talking with people about 
how the process of planning for the shuttered station's future will 
work. Event details have yet to be set.

After that, the actual planning -- the meaty environmental reports and 
the community decisionmaking -- will begin. That should be finished by 
summer 2008, according to new estimates.

The Navy will still have to sign off on the final plan. In light of 
other base closures nationwide that are five to 10 years behind, 
residents won't likely see earthmovers at the base for years.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/local/states/california/16727837.htm

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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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